Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] vhost: accelerate metadata access

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 14:17:11 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:07:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 04:12:12 -0400
>
> > This series tries to access virtqueue metadata through kernel virtual
> > address instead of copy_user() friends since they had too much
> > overheads like checks, spec barriers or even hardware feature
> > toggling like SMAP. This is done through setup kernel address through
> > direct mapping and co-opreate VM management with MMU notifiers.
> >
> > Test shows about 23% improvement on TX PPS. TCP_STREAM doesn't see
> > obvious improvement.
>
> I'm still waiting for some review from mst.
>
> If I don't see any review soon I will just wipe these changes from
> patchwork as it serves no purpose to just let them rot there.
>
> Thank you.

I thought we agreed I'm merging this through my tree, not net-next.
So you can safely wipe it.

Thanks!

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