From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 00/11] net: mitigating kmem_cache slowpath and BoF discussion patches Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 14:25:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20160207.142526.1252110536030712971.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20151023124451.17364.14594.stgit@firesoul> <20160202211051.16315.51808.stgit@firesoul> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux.com, tom@herbertland.com, alexander.duyck@gmail.com, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, gerlitz.or@gmail.com To: brouer@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:35733 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752918AbcBGTZb (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:25:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160202211051.16315.51808.stgit@firesoul> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:11:28 +0100 > This patchset is relevant for my NetDev 1.1 "Network Performance BoF" [1]. > > The first 4 patches, is a repost[2], for the first real use-case of > kmem_cache bulk alloc and free API. They were adjusted slightly to > accomodate my last slab API changes. They should be ready for > inclusion in net-next, as the needed MM tree are avail in net-next. > > Patch 5 is also enabling the SKB bulk API for mlx5. > > Thus, patches 1-5 should be ready for net-next. > > After patch 5, the experimental patches begin, which is Prove-of-Concept > code for what we will be discussing during the Network Performance BoF [1] > > [1] http://netdevconf.org/1.1/bof-network-performance-bof-jesper-dangaard-brouer.html > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/384302/ Very exciting work, indeed! Jesper, why don't you resubmit just the first three patches as a group? They seem a lot less controversial and as Alexei said, stand on their own. Thanks.