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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:14:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920091425.GA8381@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284973320.3420.49.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:02:00AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 ?? 07:21 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> 
> > Probably we could start from enhacing moving drivers to paged skbs
> > where possible. And maybe simplifying the skb model by not allowing
> > frags and frag lists together?
> > 
> 
> Sure. I believe current model, pre-allocating skb in huge tx rings is a
> waste of mem bandwidth anyway. (I am refering to the struct sk_buff
> itself, not the payload part)
> 
> Of course some drivers are doing it right, using netdev_alloc_skb()
> right before feeding this skb to network stack, not an old one.
> 
> > Btw, I wonder what is the exact reason we can't use only
> > NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET?
> 
> I see no real reason.
> 
> On 32bit arches, it might be faster to manipulate pointers, and not
> 'base+offset' values.

The only reason is code readability and maintenance. Did anybody check
how much faster?

Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03  3:43 [PATCH] net: Frag list lost on head expansion David Miller
2010-09-03  5:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03  6:19   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03  9:09   ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization Eric Dumazet
2010-09-03 13:46     ` David Miller
2010-09-07  2:20       ` David Miller
2010-09-07  5:02         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07  5:05           ` David Miller
2010-09-07  9:16           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-07  9:37             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-10 19:54               ` David Miller
2010-09-11 12:31                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12  3:30                   ` David Miller
2010-09-12 10:45                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 10:58                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 15:58                       ` David Miller
2010-09-12 16:13                         ` David Miller
2010-09-12 20:57                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 22:08                             ` David Miller
2010-09-13  7:49                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-12 19:55                         ` Ben Pfaff
2010-09-12 20:24                           ` David Miller
2010-09-12 20:45                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20  0:17                   ` David Miller
2010-09-20  7:21                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20  9:02                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20  9:14                         ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-09-20 12:12                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-20 12:40                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20 16:59                       ` David Miller
2010-09-07  1:25     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-22 19:12 [PATCH] Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c Andrea Shepard
2010-07-23  5:09 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization Eric Dumazet
2010-07-25  4:06   ` David Miller

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