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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
	ian.campbell@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] xen-netback: switch to per-cpu scratch space
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 13:24:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519F5C09.3030502__42141.3777549334$1369398409$gmane$org@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369391553-16835-3-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com>

On 24/05/13 11:32, Wei Liu wrote:
> There are maximum nr_onlie_cpus netback threads running. We can make use of
> per-cpu scratch space to reduce the size of buffer space when we move to 1:1
> model.

How much memory does this actually save?  At first glance the savings
don't seem worth it for the extra complexity wrt hotplugged VCPUs etc.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-24 10:32 [PATCH net-next 0/3] xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] xen-netback: page pool support Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 12:44   ` David Vrabel
2013-05-24 12:44   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-05-24 13:25     ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 13:25     ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 13:34     ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 13:34     ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] xen-netback: switch to per-cpu scratch space Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 12:24   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2013-05-24 12:24   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-05-24 12:31     ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 12:31     ` Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model Wei Liu
2013-05-24 10:32 ` Wei Liu

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