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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio indirect ring entries
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio indirect ring entries |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:44:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Indirect ring entries has been merged for 2.6.31, these patches
> implement the qemu side.
I like the idea of increasing the ring capacity, but I see that this
method still has limitations, and the effective capacity depends on
the I/O submission pattern, which isn't very friendly.
Has arbitrarily expandable rings (using tail pointer ring entries)
ever been considered?
-- Jamie