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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tuntap: introduce tx skb ring
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:21:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160518112045-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160518101631.368e3447@redhat.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:16:31AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:38:37 +0800 Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > >> And if tx_queue_length is not power of 2,
> > >> we probably need modulus to calculate the capacity.  
> > > Is that really that important for speed?  
> > 
> > Not sure, I can test.
> 
> In my experience, yes, adding a modulus does affect performance.

How about simple
	if (unlikely(++idx > size))
		idx = 0;


> > 
> > Right, this sounds a good solution.
> 
> Good idea.

I'm not that sure - it's clearly wasting memory.

> -- 
> Best regards,
>   Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>   MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
>   Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
>   LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-16  1:17 [PATCH net-next] tuntap: introduce tx skb ring Jason Wang
2016-05-16  3:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-05-16  7:51   ` Jason Wang
2016-05-18  8:13     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-05-18  8:23       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-18 10:23       ` Jason Wang
2016-05-18 11:52         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-18 16:26       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-18 16:41         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-05-18 16:46           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-19 11:59         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-05-16  4:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-16  7:52   ` Jason Wang
2016-05-16  8:08     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-17  1:38       ` Jason Wang
2016-05-18  8:16         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-05-18  8:21           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2016-05-18  9:21             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-05-18  9:55               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-18 10:42                 ` Jason Wang
2016-05-18 10:58                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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