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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	alexander.duyck@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343406533.2626.13104.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx2l41hl.fsf@xmission.com>

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 09:23 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I am familiar.  But does hardware prefetching make a difference
> if your object is less than 64 bytes?
> 

Apparently yes, if the prefetch touches a dirtied neighbour cache line.

> I don't believe only allocating 64 bytes will be a problem,
> as no one else well be dirtying your cache line.
> 
> I suppose you could run into pathologies where your object
> is 3*64 bytes in size, but your expression doesn't handle
> that case either.
> 

Sure, but in most cases fib objects are under 128 bytes.


> The other alternative to guarantee very good cache behavior is
> to ensure you are allocating a power of two size up to some limit,
> perhaps page size.
> 

Good idea.

> My point is the magic 128 likely requires an explicatory comment and I
> think the net result is you have encoded something fragile that is good
> for testing but that will in the fullness of time do strange things that
> will be easy to overlook.

Sure, I'll send a v2, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-27 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 21:25 [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache David Miller
2012-07-20 22:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-20 22:42   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-20 22:50     ` David Miller
2012-07-20 22:54       ` David Miller
2012-07-20 23:13         ` David Miller
2012-07-21  5:40           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-22  7:47 ` Vijay Subramanian
2012-07-22 19:42   ` David Miller
2012-07-23  0:39 ` David Miller
2012-07-23  7:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-23 17:54     ` Paweł Staszewski
2012-07-23 20:10       ` David Miller
2012-07-26 17:02       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-25 23:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-25 23:17   ` David Miller
2012-07-25 23:39     ` David Miller
2012-07-26  0:54       ` David Miller
2012-07-26  2:30         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26  5:32           ` David Miller
2012-07-26  8:13         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26  8:18           ` David Miller
2012-07-26  8:27             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26  8:47               ` David Miller
2012-07-26  9:12                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:18                 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 17:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:36                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:43                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 17:48                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 18:26                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 21:06                             ` David Miller
2012-07-26 22:03                               ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 22:13                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-26 22:19                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-26 22:48                                   ` David Miller
2012-07-26 22:53                                 ` David Miller
2012-07-27  2:14                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-27  3:08                                     ` David Miller
2012-07-27  6:02                                       ` David Miller
2012-07-27 10:01                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-27 14:53                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-27 15:12                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-27 16:23                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-27 16:28                                                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-07-27 19:06                                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-28  4:15                                         ` David Miller
2012-07-28  5:45                                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 18:06                         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-07-26 21:00                         ` David Miller
2012-07-26 20:59                   ` David Miller

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