From: "Eric Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:23:10 +0100
> > Even if your two pointers addition (16 bytes on x86_64) > > doesnt cross a 64bytes > > line (I didn't checked), they are going to be set to NULL > > each time a skbuff > > is allocated , and checked against NULL each time a skbuff is > > destroyed. > > Indeed. Do you think that's significant? On a machine routing a million packets per second, it definitely is. It is the most crucial data structure for performance in all of the networking. - 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
