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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eeb@bartonsoftware.com
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH zero-copy send completion callback
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:45:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061017.144503.91315349.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020d01c6f1e7$029beb70$0281a8c0@ebpc>

From: "Eric Barton" <eeb@bartonsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:23:10 +0100

> > Even if your two pointers addition (16 bytes on x86_64) 
> > doesnt cross a 64bytes 
> > line (I didn't checked), they are going to be set to NULL 
> > each time a skbuff 
> > is allocated , and checked against NULL each time a skbuff is 
> > destroyed.
> 
> Indeed.  Do you think that's significant?

On a machine routing a million packets per second, it
definitely is.  It is the most crucial data structure
for performance in all of the networking.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-17 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20061016.135222.78711520.davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-17  0:53 ` PATCH zero-copy send completion callback Eric Barton
2006-10-17  9:01   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 12:23     ` Eric Barton
2006-10-17 21:45       ` David Miller [this message]
2006-10-17 11:19   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 12:50 Eric Barton
2006-10-17 13:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
     [not found] <20061017094643.GA28926@infradead.org>
2006-10-17 12:27 ` Eric Barton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-16 18:21 Eric Barton
2006-10-16 17:25 Eric Barton

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