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| H A D | virtio_net.c | diff fb6813f480806d62361719e84777c8e00d3e86a8 Fri Jul 25 12:06:01 CDT 2008 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver
If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+)
skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers):
Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds
Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase
that from 128 to 2048:
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds
If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page:
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds
This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to
have a separate "small buffer" queue.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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