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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] sky2: skb recycling
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:22:04 -0700
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:13:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > This patch implements skb recycling. It reclaims transmitted skb's
> > for use in the receive ring.
> 
> Was sky2 able to show any gain in forwarding performance due to this 
> patch?  Was it significant?  What kind of machine was used to test?

no not really, sky2 has other issue which hurt performance.


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