Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio-ring: Allocate indirect buffers from cachewhen possible

[Avi Kivity]

On 09/04/2012 09:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:34:19PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/31/2012 12:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:36:07AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> >> On 08/30/2012 03:38 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> >> >> +static unsigned int indirect_alloc_thresh = 16;
>> >> > Why 16?  Please make is MAX_SG + 1 this makes some sense.
>> >> 
>> >> Wouldn't MAX_SG mean we always allocate from the cache? Isn't the memory waste
>> >> too big in this case?
>> > 
>> > Sorry. I really meant MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1. MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 17 so gets us
>> > threshold of 18. It is less than the size of an skb+shinfo itself so -
>> > does it look too big to you? Also why do you think 16 is not too big but
>> > 18 is?  If there's a reason then I am fine with 16 too but then please
>> > put it in code comment near where the value is set.
>> > 
>> > Yes this means virtio net always allocates from cache
>> > but this is a good thing, isn't it? Gets us more consistent
>> > performance.
>> 
>> kmalloc() also goes to a cache.  Is there a measurable difference?
> 
> Yes see 0/2 and followup discussion.

I don't see 0/2, looks like this was not threaded properly.  What was
the subject line?


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