netdev - Re: Network performance with small packets

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Message-ID: <87wrir3wrc.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:03:43 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	habanero@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>,
	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, steved@...ibm.com,
	Tom Lendacky <tahm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, borntraeger@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Network performance with small packets

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:03:59 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:58:41PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > They have to offer the feature, so if the have some way of allocating
> > non-page-aligned amounts of memory, they'll have to add those extra 2
> > bytes.
> > 
> > So I think it's OK...
> > Rusty.
> 
> To clarify, my concern is that we always seem to try to map
> these extra 2 bytes, which thinkably might fail?

No, if you look at the layout it's clear that there's always most of a
page left for this extra room, both in the middle and at the end.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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