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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: monstr@monstr.eu
Cc: juice@swagman.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hight speed data sending from custom IP out of kernel
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:30:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303734625.2747.121.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303734468.2747.120.camel@edumazet-laptop>

Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:27 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:18 +0200, Michal Simek a écrit :
> 
> > > 
> > > Now, if all you want to do is send many packets from pktgen (with only
> > > ID changing), you could add a fast path to not rebuild from scratch new
> > > packets.
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> 
> If you know your device has X slots in its TX ring buffer, you would
> have to maintain at least X+1 skbs in pktgen to make sure you reuse an
> skb while its previous logical content was sent on wire.
> 
> Then you are free to only change iph->id and iph->check very fast.
> 

Checking skb->users would also be a good way to know if TX completion
released skb reference. If your module owns the last reference, it can
do a recycle.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-25 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 11:34 Hight speed data sending from custom IP out of kernel juice
2011-04-19 11:50 ` Michal Simek
2011-04-19 16:02   ` juice
2011-04-21  8:02     ` Michal Simek
2011-04-21  8:18       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-21  9:20         ` Michal Simek
2011-04-25 11:18         ` Michal Simek
2011-04-25 12:14           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-25 12:18             ` Michal Simek
2011-04-25 12:27               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-25 12:30                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-04-25 12:48                   ` Michal Simek
2011-04-21 13:56     ` zhou rui
2011-04-21 14:31     ` zhou rui
2011-04-21 20:27       ` juice
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-19  9:49 Michal Simek

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