Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: core: use listified Rx for GRO_NORMAL in napi_gro_receive()

Alexander Lobakin
2019-10-16T07:31:50Z

David Miller wrote 16.10.2019 04:16:
> From: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:00:33 +0300
>
>> Commit 323ebb61e32b4 ("net: use listified RX for handling GRO_NORMAL
>> skbs") made use of listified skb processing for the users of
>> napi_gro_frags().
>> The same technique can be used in a way more common napi_gro_receive()
>> to speed up non-merged (GRO_NORMAL) skbs for a wide range of drivers
>> including gro_cells and mac80211 users.
>> This slightly changes the return value in cases where skb is being
>> dropped by the core stack, but it seems to have no impact on related
>> drivers' functionality.
>> gro_normal_batch is left untouched as it's very individual for every
>> single system configuration and might be tuned in manual order to
>> achieve an optimal performance.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
>> Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
>
> Applied, thank you.

David, Edward, Eric, Ilias,
thank you for your time.

Regards,
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