[PATCH net-next] virtio-net: rx busy polling support

Jason Wang
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:44:46 -0000

On 07/15/2014 06:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:41 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> Add basic support for rx busy polling.
>>
>> 1 byte netperf tcp_rr on mlx4 shows 116% improvement: the transaction
>> rate was increased from 9151.94 to 19787.37.
> This is a misleading changelog.
>
> You forgot to describe how you allowed busy polling, as it is not
> 'automatic'
>
> If not, this patch adds two spinlock/unlock pairs in fast path.

Ok.
> Also, it looks like you could split this in smaller patches.
>
> virtnet_napi_disable_all() & virtnet_napi_enable_all() could be added
in
> a separate patch for example.

Sure, will split this patch into smaller ones in V2.

Thanks