netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

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Message-ID: <51A46ADD.5070101@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 11:29:17 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

On 28/05/2013 03:35, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 10:43 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> There are many small changes from the last time.
>> The two big changes are:
>> * Skb and sk now store a napi_id instead of a pointer.
>> * Very naive poll/select support. There is a dramatic improvement in both
>>    latencey and jitter, but clearly more work needs to be done here.
>
> Sorry I couldn't figure out how poll() was supported.

It's the fs/select changes in the second patch.
Should I will split it into a separate one? (it's just 7 lines)

-Eliezer
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