netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] remove msize limit in virtio transport

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Date:   Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:54:29 +0200
From:   Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        Nikolay Kichukov <nikolay@...um.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] remove msize limit in virtio transport

On Samstag, 16. Juli 2022 01:28:51 CEST Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Dominique Martinet wrote on Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 07:30:45AM +0900:
> > Christian Schoenebeck wrote on Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:35:26PM +0200:
> > > * Patches 7..11 tremendously reduce unnecessarily huge 9p message sizes
> > > and
> > > 
> > >   therefore provide performance gain as well. So far, almost all 9p
> > >   messages
> > >   simply allocated message buffers exactly msize large, even for
> > >   messages
> > >   that actually just needed few bytes. So these patches make sense by
> > >   themselves, independent of this overall series, however for this
> > >   series
> > >   even more, because the larger msize, the more this issue would have
> > >   hurt
> > >   otherwise.
> > 
> > Unless they got stuck somewhere the mails are missing patches 10 and 11,
> > one too many 0s to git send-email ?
> 
> nevermind, they just got in after 1h30... I thought it'd been 1h since
> the first mails because the first ones were already 50 mins late and I
> hadn't noticed! I wonder where they're stuck, that's the time
> lizzy.crudebyte.com received them and it filters earlier headers so
> probably between you and it?

Certainly an outbound SMTP greylisting delay, i.e. lack of karma. Sometimes my 
patches make it to lists after 3 hours. I haven't figured out though why some 
patches within the same series arrive significantly faster than certain other 
ones, which is especially weird when that happens not in order they were sent.

> ohwell.
> 
> > I'll do a quick review from github commit meanwhile
> 
> Looks good to me, I'll try to get some tcp/rdma testing done this
> weekend and stash them up to next

Great, thanks!

> --
> Dominique