From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pre-fetching skb for delayed send
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:52:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120706235258.GD19462@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF77070.7040705@candelatech.com>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:10:40PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> So, is there an easy way to pre-fetch an skb and it's related pages?
One trick would be to store the pointers to the skbs in an array rather than
relying on a list of skbs. That would enable you to issue prefetches for
multiple skbs from a single cache line of the array, rather than relying
upon the slow chasing of pointers guaranteed to cache miss in a list.
-ben
--
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-06 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-06 23:10 pre-fetching skb for delayed send Ben Greear
2012-07-06 23:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2012-07-07 4:15 ` Ben Greear
2012-07-07 14:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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