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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, divy@chelsio.com,
	rolandd@cisco.com, xemul@openvz.org, dcbw@redhat.com,
	libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: skb_orphan on dev_hard_start_xmit
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:56:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603.215621.136203134.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A275380.1050601@gmail.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:54:24 +0200

> We also can avoid the sock_put()/sock_hold() pair for each tx packet,
> to only touch sk_wmem_alloc (with appropriate atomic_sub_return() in sock_wfree()
> and atomic_dec_test in sk_free
> 
> We could initialize sk->sk_wmem_alloc to one instead of 0, so that
> sock_wfree() could just synchronize itself with sk_free()

Excellent idea Eric.

> Patch will follow after some testing

I look forward to it :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29 14:14 [PATCH 1/4] net: skb_orphan on dev_hard_start_xmit Rusty Russell
2009-05-29 15:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-01 12:27   ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-03 21:02     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-04  3:54       ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-04  4:00         ` David Miller
2009-06-04  4:54           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-04  4:56             ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-04  9:18               ` [PATCH] net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx Eric Dumazet
2009-06-04  9:26                 ` David Miller
2009-06-10  8:17                 ` David Miller
2009-06-10  8:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-11  9:56                     ` David Miller
2009-06-01 19:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: skb_orphan on dev_hard_start_xmit Patrick Ohly
2009-06-02  7:25   ` David Miller
2009-06-02 14:08     ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-03  0:14       ` David Miller
2009-07-03  7:55         ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-04  3:02           ` David Miller
2009-07-04  3:08             ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-04  3:13               ` David Miller
2009-07-04  7:42                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-04  9:09                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-05  3:26                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-05  3:34                       ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-18  1:47                         ` David Miller
2009-08-19  3:19                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-19  3:34                             ` David Miller

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