On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:08:04AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Friday 18 April 2008 13:24:27 Herbert Xu wrote: > > Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition > > to sending them. This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO > > case. For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb > > and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of > > preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb. > > Well, this ends up freeing the unused pages immediately which is actually > quite nice. We can cache them ourselves if we want, but we'd have to see if > the page allocation/free overhead is measurable... I was thinking of the case of a large number of these interfaces but yeah for one interface it's no biggie :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
