linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v8 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

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Date:	Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:18:12 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
CC:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	davem@...emloft.net, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	jdike@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

  On 07/30/2010 06:46 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Hello Avi,
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 08:02 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> get_user_pages() is indeed slow.  But what about
>> get_user_pages_fast()?
>>
>> Note that when the page is first touched, get_user_pages_fast() falls
>> back to get_user_pages(), so the latency needs to be measured after
>> quite a bit of warm-up.
> Yes, I used get_user_pages_fast, however if falled back to
> get_user_pages() when the apps doesn't allocate buffer on the same page.
> If I run a single ping, the RTT is extremely high, but when running
> multiple pings, the RTT time reduce significantly, but still it is not
> as fast as copy from my initial test. I am thinking that we might need
> to pre-pin memory pool.
>

I don't understand.  Under what conditions do you use get_user_pages() 
instead of get_user_pages_fast()?  Why?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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