netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: avoid two atomic ops per page on x86

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:18:03 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, krisman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com, ariel.elior@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: avoid two atomic ops per page on x86

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 08:25:34 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Commit 4cace675d687 ("bnx2x: Alloc 4k fragment for each rx ring buffer
> element") added extra put_page() and get_page() calls on arches where
> PAGE_SIZE=4K like x86
> 
> Reorder things to avoid this overhead. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
> Cc: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@...ium.com>

Applied, thanks.