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  1. 25 Jul, 2008 5 commits
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      virtio: clarify that ABI is usable by any implementations · 674bfc23
      Rusty Russell authored 
      We want others to implement and use virtio, so it makes sense to BSD
license the non-__KERNEL__ parts of the headers to make this crystal
clear.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRyan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
      674bfc23
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver · fb6813f4
      Rusty Russell authored 
      If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+)
skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers):

  Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds
  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds

Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase
that from 128 to 2048:

  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds

If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page:

  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds

This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to
have a separate "small buffer" queue.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      fb6813f4
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      virtio net: Allow receiving SG packets · 97402b96
      Herbert Xu authored 
      Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition
to sending them.  This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO
case.  For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb
and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of
preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (added feature bits)
      97402b96
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      virtio net: Add ethtool ops for SG/GSO · a9ea3fc6
      Herbert Xu authored 
      This patch adds some basic ethtool operations to virtio_net so
I could test SG without GSO (which was really useful because TSO
turned out to be buggy :)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (remove MTU setting)
      a9ea3fc6
    • Mark McLoughlin's avatar
      virtio: fix virtio_net xmit of freed skb bug · 9953ca6c
      Mark McLoughlin authored 
      On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 17:42 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put
> the skb into last_xmit_skb.  However, if more space frees up before we
> xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice.
>
> Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check
> before sending.
...
> diff -r 564237b31993 drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c	Mon May 19 12:22:00 2008 +1000
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c	Mon May 19 12:24:58 2008 +1000
> @@ -287,21 +287,25 @@ again:
>  	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
>
>  	/* If we has a buffer left over from last time, send it now. */
> -	if (vi->last_xmit_skb) {
> +	if (unlikely(vi->last_xmit_skb)) {
>  		if (xmit_skb(vi, vi->last_xmit_skb) != 0) {
>  			/* Drop this skb: we only queue one. */
>  			vi->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>  			kfree_skb(skb);
> +			skb = NULL;
>  			goto stop_queue;
>  		}
>  		vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL;

With this, may drop an skb and then later in the function discover that
we could have sent it after all. Poor wee skb :)

How about the incremental patch below?

Cheers,
Mark.

Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Delay dropping tx skbs

Currently we drop the skb in start_xmit() if we have a
queued buffer and fail to transmit it.

However, if we delay dropping it until we've stopped the
queue and enabled the tx notification callback, then there
is a chance space might become available for it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      9953ca6c
  3. 24 Jul, 2008 35 commits