netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/3] Revert "icmp: avoid allocating large struct on stack"

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:42:28 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/3] Revert "icmp: avoid allocating large struct
 on stack"

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
> This reverts commit 9a99d4a50cb8 ("icmp: avoid allocating large struct
> on stack"), because struct icmp_bxm no really a large struct, and
> allocating and free of this small 112 bytes hurts performance.

The original commit fixes a warning for large stack usage, icmp_send()
is deep in the call stack.

Your optimization for a slow path makes no sense to me.