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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Could we avoid touching dst->refcount in some cases ?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:27:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081124112709.GX6703@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492A7E85.3060502@cosmosbay.com>

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:14:29AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Andi Kleen a écrit :
> >Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> writes:
> >
> >>tbench has hard time incrementing decrementing the route cache refcount
> >>shared by all communications on localhost.
> >
> >iirc there was a patch some time ago to use per CPU loopback devices to 
> >avoid this, but it was considered too much a benchmark hack.
> >As core counts increase it might stop being that though.
> 
> Well, you probably mention Stephen patch to avoid dirtying other contended
> cache lines (one napi structure per cpu)

No that patch wasn't from Stephen. iirc it was from someone at SGI.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24  8:57 [RFC] Could we avoid touching dst->refcount in some cases ? Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24  9:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-24 10:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24 11:24     ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24 13:59       ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_push_pending_frames() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-25  0:07         ` David Miller
2008-11-24 23:55       ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data() David Miller
2008-11-25  2:22         ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-24 11:27     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-11-24 23:36       ` [RFC] Could we avoid touching dst->refcount in some cases ? David Miller
2008-11-24 23:39     ` David Miller
2008-11-25  4:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-25  5:00         ` David Miller
2008-11-26  0:00           ` [PATCH] net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-26  0:23             ` David Miller
2008-11-26  2:04             ` David Miller
2008-11-26  7:39               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-26  9:08                 ` David Miller
2008-12-17 11:25             ` net-next: broken IP_PKTINFO [was Re: [PATCH] net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()] Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-18  3:34               ` net-next: broken IP_PKTINFO David Miller
2008-12-18  5:59                 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-18  6:17                   ` David Miller

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