From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netdevice ops
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 22:58:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517225833.1b7e6acf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517.220529.115910791.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:05:29 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:54:13 -0400
>
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
> > > move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the
> > > case of lots of devices, as well as reduce initialization code.
> >
> > It will also add an additional deref to every operation, right?
>
> Yes, it's certainly going to. How much do we think that actually
> matters?
I would think a non-conditional deref would be easily pipelined.
If the net_device struct was more cache dense, it probably would
even out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-18 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 4:07 [RFC] netdevice ops Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-18 4:23 ` Ben Greear
2007-05-18 4:49 ` David Miller
2007-05-18 6:42 ` Ben Greear
2007-05-18 4:50 ` David Miller
2007-05-18 4:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 5:05 ` David Miller
2007-05-18 5:58 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-05-19 14:18 ` Andi Kleen
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