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Message-ID: <1335854551.11396.28.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 08:42:31 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a prefetch in socket backlog processing On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 08:34 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Basically this patch avoids one memory cache miss per iteration. > This patch was the easy part. I am now working on refining __skb_dequeue() API to avoid the cache line miss when we perform the __skb_unlink() and allow a prefetch(next) as well, to speedup process_backlog(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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