From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eliminate refcounting in backlog queue Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080803.213009.103189993.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080725123212.393314a9@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53725 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114AbYHDEaI (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:30:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080725123212.393314a9@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:32:12 -0700 > Avoid the overhead of atomic increment/decrement on each received packet. > This helps performance of non-NAPI devices (like loopback). > Use cleanup function to walk queue on each cpu and clean out any > left over packets. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Looks good, applied, thanks Stephen.