netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] skb recycling

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Date:	Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	buytenh@...tstofly.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ram.Natarajan@...lex.Com,
	dada1@...mosbay.com, akarkare@...vell.com, nico@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] skb recycling

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:46:16 +0200

> This implements skb recycling, which is basically just reusing skbuffs
> that have finished transmitting as receive buffers, avoiding skbuff
> freeing/reallocation overhead.  This is done by having the networking
> provide skb_recycle_check(), which drivers can then use in their tx
> ring cleanup (example implementation for mv643xx_eth included).

I like this changes a lot, so I've added them to net-next-2.6

If there are some problems found we can fix them up, and
also merging this now will better facilitate experimentation
with other drivers.

Thanks!
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