netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio_net: Recycle some more rx buffer pages

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Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:08:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, markmc@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio_net: Recycle some more rx buffer pages

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:43 +1030

> On Monday 17 November 2008 14:15:05 David Miller wrote:
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:44:57 +1030
> >
> > > @@ -82,6 +82,16 @@ static void give_a_page(struct virtnet_info *vi,
> > > struct page *page)
> >
> > -E_EMAIL_CLIENT_NEWLINES
> 
> Each time we re-fill the recv queue with buffers, we allocate
> one too many skbs and free it again when adding fails. We should
> recycle the pages allocated in this case.
> 
> A previous version of this patch made trim_pages() trim trailing
> unused pages from skbs with some paged data, but this actually
> caused a barely measurable slowdown.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> (use netdev_priv)

-ETOOLATE, and...

> -			give_a_page(dev->priv, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);

this wouldn't have applied to net-next-2.6, the dev->priv reads
netdev_priv(dev) there.

Anyways, as I said in my other reply I fixed all of this up because
I was tired of waiting... :)

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