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From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
To: "Huawei@dpdk.org" <Huawei@dpdk.org>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix virtio_net_hdr desc pointing to the	same buffer
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 07:39:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ED26CBA2FAD1BF48A8719AEF02201E36671D59@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449763652-86292-1-git-send-email-huawei.xie@intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Huawei@dpdk.org
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 12:08 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix virtio_net_hdr desc pointing to the
> same buffer
> 
> The virtio_net_hdr desc all pointed to the same buffer. It doesn't cause
> issue because in the simple TX mode we don't use the header. This patch
> makes the header desc point to different buffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> index 74b39ef..6cfd315 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ virtio_dev_vring_start(struct virtqueue *vq, int
> queue_type)
>  				vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].next = i;
>  				vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].addr =
>  					vq->virtio_net_hdr_mem +
> -						mid_idx * vq->hw-
> >vtnet_hdr_size;
> +						i * vq->hw->vtnet_hdr_size;
>  				vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].len =
>  					vq->hw->vtnet_hdr_size;
>  				vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].flags =
> --
> 1.8.1.4

So in the case when header is not used, shall the way of pointing to all header bufs to one buf
help  improve the performance? At least, it saves some of cache lines.

Thanks,
Jianfeng

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-12  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 16:07 Huawei
2015-12-12  7:39 ` Tan, Jianfeng [this message]
2015-12-14  1:21   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-14  1:35 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2015-12-14  3:01 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14  9:32   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 11:47     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14 12:44       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 13:09         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14 13:38           ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-14 13:45             ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 13:58               ` Xie, Huawei
2016-02-10 15:36                 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-12-10 17:57 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] vhost: Fix various coverity issues in vhost library Huawei
2015-12-10 17:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix virtio_net_hdr desc pointing to the same buffer Huawei

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