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OK, so I've spent a few days benchmarking. Turns out 80% of virtio_add_buf cases are uni-directional (including the always-performance-sensitive networking code), and that gets no performance penalty (though tests with real networking would be appreciated!). I'm not reposting all the "convert driver to virtio_add_outbuf()" patches: just the scsi one which I...

OK, so I've spent a few days benchmarking. Turns out 80% of virtio_add_buf cases are uni-directional (including the always-performance-sensitive networking code), and that gets no performance penalty (though tests with real networking would be appreciated!). I'm not reposting all the "convert driver to virtio_add_outbuf()" patches: just the scsi one which I...

The following series applies to net-next. The following series changes the low memory paths in virtio_net to allow the driver to contribute to reclaim when memory is tight. It attempts to rectify some performance problems we've seen where the network performance drops significantly when memory is low. The working theory is that while the driver contributes to memory pressure when throughput

The following series applies to net-next. The following series changes the low memory paths in virtio_net to allow the driver to contribute to reclaim when memory is tight. It attempts to rectify some performance problems we've seen where the network performance drops significantly when memory is low. The working theory is that while the driver contributes to memory pressure when throughput

OK, this is (ab)uses some of Paolo's patches. The first 7 are candidates for this merge window (maybe), the rest I'm not so sure about. Thanks, Rusty. Paolo Bonzini (3): scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end virtio-blk: reorganize virtblk_add_req virtio-blk: use virtqueue_add_sgs on req path Rusty Russell (13): virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs. virtio-blk:

OK, this is (ab)uses some of Paolo's patches. The first 7 are candidates for this merge window (maybe), the rest I'm not so sure about. Thanks, Rusty. Paolo Bonzini (3): scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end virtio-blk: reorganize virtblk_add_req virtio-blk: use virtqueue_add_sgs on req path Rusty Russell (13): virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs. virtio-blk:

Add virtqueue_add_sgs which is more general than virtqueue_add_buf, which makes virtio-scsi and virtio-blk nicer, then add virtqueue_add_inbuf and virtqueue_add_outbuf which handle the more general case, and finally delete virtqueue_add_buf(). I'm hoping this will be the final post of the whole series, and it can move from my pending-rebases tree into virtio-next. Thanks! Rusty. Paolo

Add virtqueue_add_sgs which is more general than virtqueue_add_buf, which makes virtio-scsi and virtio-blk nicer, then add virtqueue_add_inbuf and virtqueue_add_outbuf which handle the more general case, and finally delete virtqueue_add_buf(). I'm hoping this will be the final post of the whole series, and it can move from my pending-rebases tree into virtio-next. Thanks! Rusty. Paolo