Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio-ring: Allocate indirect buffers from cache when possible | Date | Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:27:23 +0930 |
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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes: > Yes without checksum net core always linearizes packets, so yes it is > screwed. > For -net, skb always allocates space for 17 frags + linear part so > it seems sane to do same in virtio core, and allocate, for -net, > up to max_frags + 1 from cache. > We can adjust it: no _SG -> 2 otherwise 18.
But I thought it used individual buffers these days?
Cheers, Rusty.
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