On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 07/02/2017 5:02 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >> Same technique than some Intel drivers, for arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096 >> >> In most cases, pages are reused because they were consumed >> before we could loop around the RX ring. > > This might not be true when multiple streams are handled in the same ring. > As the process time in stack will be longer. > We will test this scenario as well.
Sure thing. I already did ;) I had a local patch adding a new "ethtool -S ... | grep rx_page_allocs" counter. I could probably add it to the series. (I noticed that rx_alloc_failed was a dead counter) Thanks.
