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Indirect desc

Open ShadowCurse opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Changes

Add support for INDIRECT_DESC for IoVecBuff/Mut and enabled VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC flag for virtio-net device. This feature allows guest to create more buffers for packets which in turn should help with throughput when all available descriptors are used.

Reason

Should help with network performance.

Note

This PR is built on top of #4658, so needs to be merged after it.

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ShadowCurse avatar Aug 16 '24 16:08 ShadowCurse