opengnsys_ipxe/src/drivers
Michael Brown b2c7b6a85e [intel] Push new RX descriptors in batches
Inside a virtual machine, writing the RX ring tail pointer may incur a
substantial overhead of processing inside the hypervisor.  Minimise
this overhead by writing the tail pointer once per batch of
descriptors, rather than once per descriptor.

Profiling under qemu-kvm (version 1.6.2) shows that this reduces the
amount of time taken to refill the RX descriptor ring by around 90%.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2014-04-27 23:14:48 +01:00
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bitbash [bitbash] Add optional open() and close() methods for bit-bashing interfaces 2012-08-24 17:26:10 +01:00
block [settings] Explicitly separate the concept of a completed fetched setting 2013-12-05 00:37:02 +00:00
bus [settings] Explicitly separate the concept of a completed fetched setting 2013-12-05 00:37:02 +00:00
infiniband [hermon] Use PCI VPD for non-volatile option storage 2012-10-25 08:24:00 -07:00
linux [linux] Apply MAC address prior to registering network device 2013-09-03 02:02:58 +01:00
net [intel] Push new RX descriptors in batches 2014-04-27 23:14:48 +01:00
nvs [legal] Update FSF mailing address in GPL licence texts 2012-07-20 19:55:45 +01:00