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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,RFC 00/13] New fast forwarding path
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:58:34 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:52:03 -0700

> IIRC, there was a similar proposal a while back that want to bundle
> packets of the same flow together (without doing GRO) so that they
> could be processed by various functions by looking at just one
> representative packet in the group. The concept had some promise, but
> in the end it created quite a bit of complexity since at some point
> the packet bundle needed to be undone to go back to processing the
> individual packets.

You're probably talking about Edward Cree's SKB list stuff, and as
per his presenation at netconf 2 weeks ago he plans to revitalize
it given how Spectre et al. gives cause to reevaluate all bulking
techniques.