Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize() | From | Matt Mackall <> | Date | Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:54:39 -0600 |
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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:52 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:28:46PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > Yeah. That sucks. We should probably stick in an skb-friendly slab size > > and see what happens on network benchmarks. > > I don't see how that's going to help since we don't want it to > cross page boundaries either (having just wasted a day tracking > down a virtual networking bug because of slab debugging and > crossing page boundaries).
I'll bite.. what's wrong with page boundaries? Do we play per-SKB TLB games in virtual network drivers?
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