Commit 57fb58f9 authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by Stefan Bader

vhost_net: disable zerocopy by default

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840081

[ Upstream commit 098eadce ]

Vhost_net was known to suffer from HOL[1] issues which is not easy to
fix. Several downstream disable the feature by default. What's more,
the datapath was split and datacopy path got the support of batching
and XDP support recently which makes it faster than zerocopy part for
small packets transmission.

It looks to me that disable zerocopy by default is more
appropriate. It cold be enabled by default again in the future if we
fix the above issues.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3787671/Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarConnor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 6415c30a
......@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
#include "vhost.h"
static int experimental_zcopytx = 1;
static int experimental_zcopytx = 0;
module_param(experimental_zcopytx, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(experimental_zcopytx, "Enable Zero Copy TX;"
" 1 -Enable; 0 - Disable");
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