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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Subject: Re: skb_shared_info()
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:18:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608141018.05649.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060814075045.GA1437@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Monday 14 August 2006 09:50, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:45:53AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > Even for 1.5k MTU? (which is still the most common case after all)
> 
> Ideally they would stay in kmalloc memory.  Could you explain the cache
> colouring problem for 1500-byte packets?

kmalloc rounds the 1.5k up to 2k and with that exactly two objects
fit into a 4k page. With that slab doesn't have any space left
to do cache coloring.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-14  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 23:39 skb_shared_info() David Miller
2006-08-09  0:36 ` skb_shared_info() Herbert Xu
2006-08-09  0:58   ` skb_shared_info() David Miller
2006-08-09  5:35     ` skb_shared_info() Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-09  5:50       ` skb_shared_info() David Miller
2006-08-10 19:49 ` skb_shared_info() Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-11 14:00 ` skb_shared_info() Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-12  0:27   ` skb_shared_info() David Miller
2006-08-12  0:32     ` skb_shared_info() Herbert Xu
2006-08-13 13:04     ` skb_shared_info() Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-14  8:01       ` skb_shared_info() Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-14 13:19         ` skb_shared_info() Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-14 13:38           ` skb_shared_info() Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-15 11:30             ` skb_shared_info() Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-14  5:04 ` skb_shared_info() Andi Kleen
2006-08-14  7:29   ` skb_shared_info() Herbert Xu
2006-08-14  7:45     ` skb_shared_info() Andi Kleen
2006-08-14  7:50       ` skb_shared_info() Herbert Xu
2006-08-14  8:18         ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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