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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:11:44 +0200
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>
> With grant of the description, it looks negative in the memory management,
> but actually, the amount of memory usage in the driver layer is less than
> the ordinaly gianfar (around half), especially the NAPI is enable. This
> recycling is introduced in order to chop down the critical path memory
> usage.

Explain? 

> Forwarding performance goes up 60 to 100% better, and amount of memory
> usage is half.

And what happens when the box doesn't route and isn't under full network
load? 

-Andi