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From: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:19:25 +0100

> If you are looking for peculiarities in my setup then here they are:
> I am on 4k pages, and perf is not working :-(
> (I am trying to fix those too, but that is far from being a low hanging fruit.)
> So my guess would be that the packet pipeline doesn't fit in the cache/tlb

Pure specualtion until you can actually use perf to measure these
things.

And I don't want to apply patches which were designed based upon
pure speculation.