Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

Jarek Poplawski
2009-01-26T08:20:56Z

On 20-01-2009 11:31, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
...
> I believe approach to meet all our goals is to have own network memory
> allocator, so that each skb could have its payload in the fragments, we
> would not suffer from the heavy fragmentation and power-of-two overhead
> for the larger MTUs, have a reserve for the OOM condition and generally
> do not depend on the main system behaviour.
>
> I will resurrect to some point my network allocator to check how things
> go in the modern environment, if no one will beat this idea first :)
>
> 1. Network (tree) allocator
> http://www.ioremap.net/projects/nta

I looked at this a bit, but alas I didn't find much for this Herbert's
idea of payload in fragments/pages. Maybe some kind of API RFC is
needed before this resurrection?

Jarek P.