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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Update netdev_alloc_frag to work more efficiently
 with TCP and GRO
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:44:07 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:17 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Strange, I did again benchs with order-2 allocations and got good
> results this time, but with latest net-next, maybe things have changed
> since last time I did this.
> 
> (netdev_alloc_frag(), get_page_from_freelist() and put_page() less
> prevalent in perf results)
> 

Oh well, I now remember why I abandoned this : machines dont have
infinite memory after all...

(put_page assumes order-0 page)