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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once
On 20-01-2009 11:31, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
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> I believe approach to meet all our goals is to have own network memory
> allocator, so that each skb could have its payload in the fragments, we
> would not suffer from the heavy fragmentation and power-of-two overhead
> for the larger MTUs, have a reserve for the OOM condition and generally
> do not depend on the main system behaviour.
>
> I will resurrect to some point my network allocator to check how things
> go in the modern environment, if no one will beat this idea first :)
>
> 1. Network (tree) allocator
> http://www.ioremap.net/projects/nta

I looked at this a bit, but alas I didn't find much for this Herbert's
idea of payload in fragments/pages. Maybe some kind of API RFC is
needed before this resurrection?

Jarek P.


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