netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] openvswitch: Use zerocopy if applicable when performing the upcall

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Date:	Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:50 -0700
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] openvswitch: Use zerocopy if applicable when
 performing the upcall

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...ap.localdomain>
>
> Avoids a memcpy() that is expensive for large packets:
>
> from:
>   4.51%  [kernel]                      [k] memcpy
> to:
>   1.20%  [kernel]                      [k] memcpy
>   1.01%  [kernel]                      [k] skb_zerocopy
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

Does this have any impact on small packets? Those are usually the
common case (i.e. TCP SYN) and I think this is slightly less optimal
for those.
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