Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main) by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:39:08 +0800 you wrote: > There are several issues existed in start_xmit(): > > - Transmitted packets need to be freed before sending a packet, this > introduces delay and increases the average packets transmit > time. This also increase the time that spent in holding the TX lock. > - Notification is enabled after free_old_xmit_skbs() which will > introduce unnecessary interrupts if TX notification happens on the > same CPU that is doing the transmission now (actually, virtio-net > driver are optimized for this case). > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net-next] virtio-net: tweak for better TX performance in NAPI mode https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e13b6da7045f You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html