Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:20:36 +0000 | From | Jarek Poplawski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once |
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On 20-01-2009 11:31, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: ... > 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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