linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NET]: uninline skb

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Message-Id: <20080327.150456.39560267.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	acme@...hat.com, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NET]: uninline skb_put, de-bloats a lot

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:50 -0700

> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:38 +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > Allyesconfig (v2.6.24-mm1):
> 
> I think this change is only good in severely memory
> limited uses.  This will very likely negatively impact
> high speed networking.  It's a speed/size trade off.

I severely doubt this, the bulk of the overhead of
skb_put() is the atomic operation, not whether the
instructions get executed inline or not.

Please run some tests before making claims like this.
I might give you some slack in this area if you've
been doing networking performance tuning for 10+ years
but you haven't.
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