netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] TX used ring batched updating for vhost

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Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] TX used ring batched updating for vhost

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:15:12 +0800

> This series implement batch updating of used ring for TX. This help to
> reduce the cache contention on used ring. The idea is first split
> datacopy path from zerocopy, and do only batching for datacopy. This
> is because zercopy had already supported its own batching.
> 
> TX PPS was increased 25.8% and Netperf TCP does not show obvious
> differences.
> 
> The split of datapath will also be helpful for future implementation
> like in order completion.
> 
> Please review.

Jason, I really like the way you composed this patch series, it was
very easy to read and understand. :-)

Michael, please review.