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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c index c64cc7639c39..5bce24731502 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c @@ -1017,6 +1017,26 @@ static inline void move_pkt_msd(struct hv_netvsc_packet **msd_send, } /* RCU already held by caller */ +/* Batching/bouncing logic is designed to attempt to optimize + * performance. + * + * For small, non-LSO packets we copy the packet to a send buffer + * which is pre-registered with the Hyper-V side. This enables the + * hypervisor to avoid remapping the aperture to access the packet + * descriptor and data. + * + * If we already started using a buffer and the netdev is transmitting + * a burst of packets, keep on copying into the buffer until it is + * full or we are done collecting a burst. If there is an existing + * buffer with space for the RNDIS descriptor but not the packet, copy + * the RNDIS descriptor to the buffer, keeping the packet in place. + * + * If we do batching and send more than one packet using a single + * NetVSC message, free the SKBs of the packets copied, except for the + * last packet. This is done to streamline the handling of the case + * where the last packet only had the RNDIS descriptor copied to the + * send buffer, with the data pointers included in the NetVSC message. + */ int netvsc_send(struct net_device *ndev, struct hv_netvsc_packet *packet, struct rndis_message *rndis_msg, |