linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:38:12 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'KY Srinivasan' <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V

From: KY Srinivasan
> Sent: 16 September 2015 23:58
...
> > I think we get that.  The question is does the Remote NDIS header and
> > packet info actually need to be a part of the header data?  I would
> > argue that it probably doesn't.
> >
> > So for example in netvsc_start_xmit it looks like you are calling
> > init_page_array in order to populate a set of page buffers, but the
> > first buffer for the Remote NDIS protocol is populated as a separate
> > page and offset.  As such it doesn't seem like it necessarily needs to
> > be a part of the header data but could be maintained perhaps in a
> > separate ring buffer, or perhaps just be a separate page that you break
> > up to use for each header.
> 
> You are right; the rndis header can be built as a separate fragment and sent.
> Indeed this is what we were doing earlier - on the outgoing path we would allocate
> memory for the rndis header. My goal was to avoid this allocation on every packet being
> sent and I decided to use the headroom instead. If we can completely avoid all memory
> allocation for rndis header, it makes a significant perf difference:
...


So just preallocate the header space as a fixed buffer for each ring entry
(or tx frame).

If you allocate a fixed buffer for each ring entry you may find there are
performance gains from copying small fragments into the buffer instead
of doing whatever mapping operations are required.

	David

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