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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio-ring: Use threshold for switching to indirect descriptors
On 12/04/2011 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > How much better?
> >
> > I think that if indirects benefit networking, then we're doing something
> > wrong. What's going on? Does the ring get filled too early? If so we
> > should expand it.
>
> The ring is physically contigious.
> With 256 entries and 64 bytes each, that's already 16K.

A descriptor is just 16 bytes. There's also the used ring, but that's a
mistake if you have out of order completion. We should have used copying.

16kB worth of descriptors is 1024 entries. With 4kB buffers, that's 4MB
worth of data, or 4 ms at 10GbE line speed. With 1500 byte buffers it's
just 1.5 ms. In any case I think it's sufficient.

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