From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:21:52 -0700 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 26/27] igb: Update code to better handle incrementing page count In-Reply-To: <20161025153906.4815.61652.stgit@ahduyck-blue-test.jf.intel.com> References: <20161025153220.4815.61239.stgit@ahduyck-blue-test.jf.intel.com> <20161025153906.4815.61652.stgit@ahduyck-blue-test.jf.intel.com> Message-ID: <1477502512.2431.1.camel@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 11:39 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch updates the driver code so that we do bulk updates of the page > reference count instead of just incrementing it by one reference at a > time. > The advantage to doing this is that we cut down on atomic operations and > this in turn should give us a slight improvement in cycles per packet.? > In > addition if we eventually move this over to using build_skb the gains > will > be more noticeable. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: