netdev - Re: Optimizing instruction-cache, more packets at each stage

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Message-Id: <20160115.154721.458450438918273509.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:47:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brouer@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, borkmann@...earbox.net,
	marek@...udflare.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org, fw@...len.de,
	pabeni@...hat.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Subject: Re: Optimizing instruction-cache, more packets at each stage

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:22:23 +0100

> This was only at the driver level.  I also would like some API towards
> the stack.  Maybe we could simple pass a skb-list?

Datastructures are everything so maybe we can create some kind of SKB
bundle abstractions.  Whether it's a lockless array or a linked list
behind it doesn't really matter.

We could have two categories: Related and Unrelated.

If you think about GRO and routing keys you might see what I am getting
at. :-)