From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, peterz@infradead.org,
arjan@linux.intel.com, yong.zhang0@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.jf.intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:35:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqczwtia.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0C2CCA.6030006@gmail.com> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:58:18 +0100")
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:
> David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:15 +0100
>>
>>> It seems complex to me, maybe optimal thing would be to use a NUMA policy to
>>> spread vmalloc() allocations to all nodes to get a good bandwidth...
>>
>> vmalloc() and sk_buff's don't currently mix and I really don't see us
>> every allowing them to :-)
>
> I think Peter was referring to tx/rx rings buffers, not sk_buffs.
>
> They (ring buffers) are allocated with vmalloc() at driver init time.
They are typically allocated with dma_alloc_coherent(), which does
allocate a continuous area. In theory you could do interleaving
with IOMMus, but just putting it on the same node as the device
is probably better.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 6:46 [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-23 7:32 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-23 7:32 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-23 9:36 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-23 10:21 ` ixgbe question Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 10:30 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-23 10:34 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-23 10:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 14:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 21:26 ` David Miller
2009-11-23 14:10 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-11-23 14:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 18:30 ` robert
2009-11-23 16:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-23 20:54 ` robert
2009-11-23 21:28 ` David Miller
2009-11-23 22:14 ` Robert Olsson
2009-11-23 23:28 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-23 23:44 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 7:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 8:46 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-24 9:07 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 9:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 10:06 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] ixgbe: Fix TX stats accounting Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 13:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 7:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-25 9:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 9:38 ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-24 13:14 ` ixgbe question John Fastabend
2009-11-29 8:18 ` David Miller
2009-11-30 13:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-30 20:20 ` John Fastabend
2009-11-26 14:10 ` Badalian Vyacheslav
2009-11-23 17:05 ` [PATCH] irq: Add node_affinity CPU masks for smarter irqbalance hints Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-23 23:32 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2009-11-24 8:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 8:59 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 9:15 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-24 17:55 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-25 11:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 6:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-24 17:39 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 17:56 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 18:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 18:33 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 19:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 19:53 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-11-24 18:54 ` David Miller
2009-11-24 18:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 20:35 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-11-24 20:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 10:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 10:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-25 11:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-25 11:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-26 11:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-24 5:17 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-24 5:17 ` Yong Zhang
2009-11-24 8:39 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
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2009-11-23 7:12 Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
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