> -----Original Message----- > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:04 PM > To: thomas1206@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang; KY Srinivasan; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; > jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; driverdev- > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Increase the buffer length for > netvsc_channel_cb() > > From: Haiyang Zhang <thomas1206@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 15:55:30 +0000 > > > When the buffer is too small for a packet from VMBus, a bigger buffer > will be > > allocated in netvsc_channel_cb() and retry reading the packet from > VMBus. > > Increasing this buffer size will reduce the retry overhead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm not applying this, sorry. > > I said that because the structure that contains this buffer is now > larger than a page, you should allocate the CB buffer externally > via another kmalloc() or via the page allocator. This must have been re-sent accidentally when we are updating our Email server... I will update the patch and re-submit it soon. Thanks, - Haiyang _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
