netdev - Re: [PATCH 02/11] net: add function to allocate skbuff head without data area

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Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:20:42 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] net: add function to allocate skbuff head without
 data area

On 04.09.2011 10:12, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le samedi 03 septembre 2011 à 19:26 +0200, kaber@...sh.net a écrit :
> 
>> +struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb_head(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node)
>> +{
>> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
>> +
>> +	/* Get the HEAD */
>> +	skb = kmem_cache_alloc_node(skbuff_head_cache,
>> +				    gfp_mask & ~__GFP_DMA, node);
>> +	if (!skb)
>> +		goto out;
>> +	prefetchw(skb);
> 
> Please remove this prefetchw(), since we have no delay between it and
> actual memset(skb).

Done, thanks.
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