Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:16:04 +1100 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:42:27PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > Hmmm, Jarek's comments here made me realize that we might be > able to do some hack with cooperation with SLAB. > > Basically the idea is that if the page count of a SLAB page > is greater than one, SLAB will not use that page for new > allocations. > > It's cheesy and the SLAB developers will likely barf at the > idea, but it would certainly work.
I'm not going anywhere near that discussion :)
> Back to real life, I think long term the thing to do is to just do the > cached page allocator thing we'll be doing after Jarek's socket page > patch is integrated, and for best performance the driver has to > receive it's data into pages, only explicitly pulling the ethernet > header into the linear area, like NIU does.
Yes that sounds like the way to go.
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