netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH V2 0/3] net: mitigating kmem

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:59:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brouer@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tom@...bertland.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cl@...ux.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 0/3] net: mitigating kmem_cache free
 slowpath

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:14:54 +0100

> This patchset is the first real use-case for kmem_cache bulk _free_.
> The use of bulk _alloc_ is NOT included in this patchset. The full use
> have previously been posted here [1].
> 
> The bulk free side have the largest benefit for the network stack
> use-case, because network stack is hitting the kmem_cache/SLUB
> slowpath when freeing SKBs, due to the amount of outstanding SKBs.
> This is solved by using the new API kmem_cache_free_bulk().
> 
> Introduce new API napi_consume_skb(), that hides/handles bulk freeing
> for the caller.  The drivers simply need to use this call when freeing
> SKBs in NAPI context, e.g. replacing their calles to dev_kfree_skb() /
> dev_consume_skb_any().
> 
> Driver ixgbe is the first user of this new API.
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/384302/focus=397373

Series applied, thanks.