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Commit bdb12e0d authored by Willem de Bruijn's avatar Willem de Bruijn Committed by David S. Miller
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virtio-net: keep tx interrupts disabled unless kick 



Tx napi mode increases the rate of transmit interrupts. Suppress some
by masking interrupts while more packets are expected. The interrupts
will be reenabled before the last packet is sent.

This optimization reduces the througput drop with tx napi for
unidirectional flows such as UDP_STREAM that do not benefit from
cleaning tx completions in the the receive napi handler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7b0411ef

drivers/net/virtio_net.c

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@@ -1200,6 +1200,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) 
	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */

	free_old_xmit_skbs(sq);



	if (use_napi && kick)

		virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed(sq->vq);



	/* timestamp packet in software */

	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);