Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] TX used ring batched updating for vhost

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Jul 22 2018 - 12:44:16 EST


From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:37:05 +0300

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 08:15:12AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> This series implement batch updating of used ring for TX. This help to
>> reduce the cache contention on used ring. The idea is first split
>> datacopy path from zerocopy, and do only batching for datacopy. This
>> is because zercopy had already supported its own batching.
>>
>> TX PPS was increased 25.8% and Netperf TCP does not show obvious
>> differences.
>>
>> The split of datapath will also be helpful for future implementation
>> like in order completion.
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm very happy with the split, the mixed data path became hard to
> maintain.

Thanks for reviewing.

Series applied, thanks everyone.