Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: Recycle some more rx buffer pages

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 01:11:18 EST


On Thursday 09 October 2008 06:34:58 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Each time we re-fill the recv queue with buffers, we allocate
> one too many skbs and free it again when adding fails. We should
> recycle the pages allocated in this case.
>
> A previous version of this patch made trim_pages() trim trailing
> unused pages from skbs with some paged data, but this actually
> caused a barely measurable slowdown.

Yes, I noticed a similar effect. Not quite sure why though.

Applied.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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