Messages in this thread | | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 14 Sep 2000 14:17:13 +0200 |
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>>>>> "jamal" == jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> writes:
jamal> The FF code of the tulip does have skb recycling code. And i jamal> belive Jes' acenic code does or did at some point. Robert jamal> Olson and I were thinking of taking out that code out of the jamal> tulip for reasons such as you talk about (and the thought maybe jamal> that the per-CPU slab might have obsoleted that jamal> requirement). We did some tests with 2.4.0-test7 and were jamal> suprised to observe that at high rate of input packets, it jamal> still made as a big a difference as 7000 packets per second ;-> jamal> i.e we got 7Kpps more by using skb recycling.
I tried recycling in the acenic driver, but after adding Ingo's early per CPU slab caches I couldn't see any measurable performance gain from using recycling.
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