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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio_blk: merge S/G list entries by default
Il 07/09/2014 12:32, Ming Lei ha scritto:
> It is a good idea to disable SG merge for vq incapable of indirect because
> there are very limited direct descriptors.

I think you mean _enabling_ SG merge if indirect descriptors are not there.

> For vq capable of indirect, it should be better to not do SG merge at default
> because:
>
> - from hypervisor view, no matter how many segments one req has, all are
> submitted to host kernel by one syscall, such as readv/io_submit
>
> - host kernel still need to do the same merge again

Here we agree.

Paolo

> From my test(virtio-blk over null_blk), looks enabling SG merge may cause
> throughput a little drop(~3%).



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