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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: brouer@redhat.com
Cc: saeedm@dev.mellanox.co.il, tom@herbertland.com,
	saeedm@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tariqt@mellanox.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Do not recycle pages from emergency reserve
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:45:40 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170123.104540.2005179027278796046.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123093940.5d69539e@redhat.com>

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:39:40 +0100

> BUT there are other advantages of using a guaranteed recycle pool
> facility (like the page_pool).  Namely, (1) DMA-overhead: keeping page
> DMA mapped to counter DMA+IOMMU overhead, (2) RX-zero-copy: opens up
> for a software memory model solution for pre-VMA-mapping pages to
> userspace (See: [1] for argument how this avoids leaking kernel mem,
> but only expose/leak packet-data mem)

+1

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-19  7:03 [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Do not recycle pages from emergency reserve Eric Dumazet
2017-01-19 19:14 ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-19 19:25   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-19 19:39     ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-21 18:09   ` Tom Herbert
     [not found]     ` <CAPe+=50xs=MMqxHPgTiGa3qytL7633Cygf_vBWuAuq=ceLyacg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-21 19:26       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-23  9:14         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-24  9:21           ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-21 20:31       ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-22 17:50         ` Tom Herbert
2017-01-24  9:29           ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-23  8:39         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-23 15:45           ` David Miller [this message]
2017-01-22 18:09       ` Tom Herbert
2017-01-20 10:28 ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-01-20 17:43 ` David Miller

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