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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netdevice ops
Date: 19 May 2007 16:18:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p737ir4ew2t.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517225833.1b7e6acf@localhost>

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> I would think a non-conditional deref would be easily pipelined.
> If the net_device struct was more cache dense, it probably would
> even out.

It might be a good idea to consider strategic prefetch points for it.

e.g. TCP executes quite a lot of code until it finally decides to dev_queue_xmit.
Prefetching before that might be a good idea.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  4:07 [RFC] netdevice ops Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-18  4:23 ` Ben Greear
2007-05-18  4:49   ` David Miller
2007-05-18  6:42     ` Ben Greear
2007-05-18  4:50 ` David Miller
2007-05-18  4:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18  5:05   ` David Miller
2007-05-18  5:58     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-19 14:18       ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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