From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pre-fetching skb for delayed send
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:52:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120706235258.GD19462@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF77070.7040705@candelatech.com>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:10:40PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> So, is there an easy way to pre-fetch an skb and it's related pages?
One trick would be to store the pointers to the skbs in an array rather than
relying on a list of skbs. That would enable you to issue prefetches for
multiple skbs from a single cache line of the array, rather than relying
upon the slow chasing of pointers guaranteed to cache miss in a list.
-ben
--
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-06 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-06 23:10 pre-fetching skb for delayed send Ben Greear
2012-07-06 23:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2012-07-07 4:15 ` Ben Greear
2012-07-07 14:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120706235258.GD19462@kvack.org \
--to=bcrl@kvack.org \
--cc=greearb@candelatech.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.