On Monday 14 August 2006 09:29, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:04:01AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Another reason to move it in the sk_buff would be better cache > > coloring? Currently on large/small MTU packets it will be always on > > the same colors. > > If we went with a fully paged skbs this should be a non-issue, right?
Even for 1.5k MTU? (which is still the most common case after all) > In a fully paged representation the head would be small which is the > perfect place to place the skb_shared_info. If the head is small and allocated with kmalloc then slab should color it yes. It won't for big allocations. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
