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* [PATCH] vhost-net: initialize zcopy packet counters
@ 2012-12-03 17:31 Michael S. Tsirkin
  2012-12-03 18:42 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2012-12-03 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin, kvm, virtualization, netdev, linux-kernel

These packet counters are used to drive the zercopy
selection heuristic so nothing too bad happens if they are off a bit -
and they are also reset once in a while.
But it's cleaner to clear them when backend is set so that
we start in a known state.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 67898fa..ff6c9199 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -823,6 +823,9 @@ static long vhost_net_set_backend(struct vhost_net *n, unsigned index, int fd)
 		r = vhost_init_used(vq);
 		if (r)
 			goto err_vq;
+
+		n->tx_packets = 0;
+		n->tx_zcopy_err = 0;
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
-- 
MST

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* Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: initialize zcopy packet counters
  2012-12-03 17:31 [PATCH] vhost-net: initialize zcopy packet counters Michael S. Tsirkin
@ 2012-12-03 18:42 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2012-12-03 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mst; +Cc: kvm, virtualization, netdev, linux-kernel

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:31:51 +0200

> These packet counters are used to drive the zercopy
> selection heuristic so nothing too bad happens if they are off a bit -
> and they are also reset once in a while.
> But it's cleaner to clear them when backend is set so that
> we start in a known state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.

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