From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:16:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: vhost-net: select tx zero copy dynamically
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window-v4-signed~45^2~473
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eaae8132ef6032ffe612e789e8ff145dcf5bc2bb;p=pandora-kernel.git

vhost-net: select tx zero copy dynamically

Even when vhost-net is in zero-copy transmit mode,
net core might still decide to copy the skb later
which is somewhat slower than a copy in user
context: data copy overhead is added to the cost of
page pin/unpin. The result is that enabling tx zero copy
option leads to higher CPU utilization for guest to guest
and guest to host traffic.

To fix this, suppress zero copy tx after a given number of
packets triggered late data copy. Re-enable periodically
to detect workload changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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