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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New net features for added performance
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:49:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14WzgK-00023V-00@halfway> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Feb 2001 00:48:35 BST." <oupsnl3k5gs.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de>

In message <oupsnl3k5gs.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de> you write:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Advantages:  A de-allocation immediately followed by a reallocation is
> > eliminated, less L1 cache pollution during interrupt handling. 
> > Potentially less DMA traffic between card and host.
> > 
> > Disadvantages?
> 
> You need a new mechanism to cope with low memory situations because the 
> drivers can tie up quite a bit of memory (in fact you gave up unified
> memory management). 

Also, you still need to "clean" the skb (it can hold device and nfct
references).

Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-24 23:25 New net features for added performance Jeff Garzik
2001-02-24 23:48 ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-25  0:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-25  0:12     ` Andi Kleen
2000-01-01  0:19       ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-04  1:19         ` LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1 Steven J. Hill
2001-03-04  1:39           ` Keith Owens
2001-03-04  2:27             ` Tom Sightler
2001-03-04 21:32             ` Mircea Damian
2001-03-04 23:05               ` Guest section DW
2001-03-04  2:39           ` Andre Tomt
2001-03-04  3:32             ` Steven J. Hill
2001-03-04 13:35           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25  0:13     ` New net features for added performance Jeff Garzik
2001-02-25  0:16       ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-25 11:49   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-02-26 23:48   ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  0:03     ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-27  0:08       ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  2:53         ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-27 19:59       ` kuznet
2001-02-25  1:55 ` Michael Richardson
2001-02-25  2:32 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-25  3:23   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-25 12:41     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-25 13:57       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-25  2:38 ` Noah Romer
2001-03-03 23:32   ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-25 12:01 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-25 15:11   ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-25 12:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-03-12 15:08   ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-25 13:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-26 23:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  0:07   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-27  0:10     ` David S. Miller
2001-03-01 21:06 ` Jes Sorensen

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