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Since virtio-vsock was introduced, the buffers filled by the host and pushed to the guest using the vring, are directly queued in a per-socket list. These buffers are preallocated by the guest with a fixed size (4 KB). The maximum amount of memory used by each socket should be controlled by the credit mechanism. The default credit available per-socket is 256 KB, but if we use only 1 byte per packet, the guest can queue up to 262144 of 4 KB buffers, using up to 1 GB of memory per-socket. In addition, the guest will continue to fill the vring with new 4 KB free buffers to avoid starvation of other sockets. This patch mitigates this issue copying the payload of small packets (< 128 bytes) into the buffer of last packet queued, in order to avoid wasting memory. Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.