From: Anton Ivanov
1. Provides infrastructure for vector IO using recvmmsg/sendmmsg.
1.1. Multi-message read.
1.2. Multi-message write.
1.3. Optimized queue support for multi-packet enqueue/dequeue.
1.4. BQL/DQL support.
2. Implements transports for several transports as well support
for direct w
This update cleans up the code and simplifies the xmit routines to
share some of the code. It also brings tap up to date to do scatter
gather and TSO on transmit. The result is ... drum roll... 4.5Gbit+
on iperf on my laptop. As a reference QEMU+kvm with all bells and
whistles does under 1GBit and
From: Anton Ivanov
1. Removes the need to walk the IRQ/Device list to determine
who triggered the IRQ.
2. Improves scalability (up to several times performance
improvement for cases with 10s of devices).
3. Improves UML baseline IO performance for one disk + one NIC
use case by up to 10%.
4. Intr
I got the TSO and some offloads working for some (not all) cases of my
patchsets.
Preliminary speeds and feeds on iperf:
[ 4] local 192.168.98.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.98.132 port 54838
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.78 GBytes 4.11 Gbits/sec
As a comparison - kvm/qemu on same machine does
