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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>,
	ast@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:55:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5624AFFA.2010209@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445238646-9379-1-git-send-email-yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>

On 10/19/2015 09:10 AM, yalin wang wrote:
> This patch change map_lookup_elem() and map_update_elem() function
> to use u64 temp variable if the key_size or value_size is less than
> u64, we don't need use kmalloc() for these small variables.
>
> Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>

 From an application PoV that has to make the bpf(2) syscall, how
much do we actually gain from this? I'm curious, did you perform
some benchmarks that show a noticeable difference?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-19  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-19  7:10 [RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables yalin wang
2015-10-19  8:55 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-10-19 19:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov

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