netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: skb recycling

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:54:18 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: skb recycling

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> Add support for recycling tx buffers into receive buffers.
> This is experimental at this point.
> 

I really like this skb recycling

For best performance, driver should perform TX completion before RX completion, so that
freshly added skb in recycle queue have a chance being reused right after. Apparently sky2
tx handling is finegrained (events posted by NIC)

But still, this mechanism also use more skbs per device, especially on dormant ones.

If your RX ring has 256 skb, then adding the recycle queue can adds 256 more skbs... One MB or event more...

Maybe we should flush the recycle queue, every 5 seconds or so, especially if device is dormant
(no RX on it, litle heartbeat TX)

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