From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945954AbaD3Rgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:36:48 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:42297 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422723AbaD3Rgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:36:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:36:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20140430.133645.1431735801141049226.davem@davemloft.net> To: kys@microsoft.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 net-next 1/1] hyperv: Enable sendbuf mechanism on the send path From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1398878071-21307-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> References: <1398878071-21307-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:14:31 -0700 > We send packets using a copy-free mechanism (this is the Guest to Host transport > via VMBUS). While this is obviously optimal for large packets, > it may not be optimal for small packets. Hyper-V host supports > a second mechanism for sending packets that is "copy based". We implement that > mechanism in this patch. > > In this version of the patch I have addressed a comment from David Miller. > > With this patch (and all of the other offload and VRSS patches), we are now able > to almost saturate a 10G interface between Linux VMs on Hyper-V > on different hosts - close to 9 Gbps as measured via iperf. > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang Applied.