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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Xmit Packet Steering (XPS)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:30:36 +0100
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Andi Kleen a =E9crit :
>=20
> Do you have numbers on this? It seems like a lot of effort to avoid t=
ransfering
> a few cache lines.

Lot of efforts ? hmm...

>=20
> -Andi (who is a bit sceptical and would rather see generic work for t=
his in slab)
>=20

Yes, I know, but slab/slub is already quite optimized :)

Coding XPS was more a way to try to help push RPS in, I did not benchma=
rked it BTW.

My new dev machine is up, with two E5530 cpus and a 82599EB 10-Gigabit =
dual port card :
Pretty amazing :=3D)