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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eilong@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2: switch to build_skb() infrastructure
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:09:05 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111118.020905.956112543630839327.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321591644.8833.1.camel@HP1>

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:47:24 -0800

> 
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 09:30 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> This is very similar to bnx2x conversion, but bnx2 only requires 16bytes
>> alignement at start of the received frame to store its l2_fhdr, so goal
>> was not to reduce skb truesize (in fact it should not change after this
>> patch)
>> 
>> Using build_skb() reduces cache line misses in the driver, since we
>> use cache hot skb instead of cold ones. Number of in-flight sk_buff
>> structures is lower, they are more likely recycled in SLUB caches
>> while still hot.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> CC: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
>> CC: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
> 
> Looks good.  Thanks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 17:30 [PATCH net-next] bnx2: switch to build_skb() infrastructure Eric Dumazet
2011-11-17 21:04 ` David Miller
2011-11-18  4:47 ` Michael Chan
2011-11-18  7:09   ` David Miller [this message]

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