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Message-ID: <20190729131259.GA6771@stefanha-x1.localdomain>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:12:59 +0100
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
To:     Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
Cc:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] vsock/virtio: optimizations to increase the
 throughput

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:14:34AM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:08:35AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:30:25PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > > This series tries to increase the throughput of virtio-vsock with slight
> > > changes.
> > > While I was testing the v2 of this series I discovered an huge use of memory,
> > > so I added patch 1 to mitigate this issue. I put it in this series in order
> > > to better track the performance trends.
> > > 
> > > v4:
> > > - rebased all patches on current master (conflicts is Patch 4)
> > > - Patch 1: added Stefan's R-b
> > > - Patch 3: removed lock when buf_alloc is written [David];
> > >            moved this patch after "vsock/virtio: reduce credit update messages"
> > >            to make it clearer
> > > - Patch 4: vhost_exceeds_weight() is recently introduced, so I've solved some
> > >            conflicts
> > 
> > Stefano: Do you want to continue experimenting before we merge this
> > patch series?  The code looks functionally correct and the performance
> > increases, so I'm happy for it to be merged.
> 
> I think we can merge this series.
> 
> I'll continue to do other experiments (e.g. removing TX workers, allocating
> pages, etc.) but I think these changes are prerequisites for the other patches,
> so we can merge them.
> 
> Thank you very much for the reviews!

All patches have been reviewed by here.  Have an Ack for good measure:

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>

The topics discussed in sub-threads relate to longer-term optimization
work that doesn't block this series.  Please merge.

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