On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Alexander Duyck wrote: > were to create a per-cpu pool for skbs that could be freed and allocated in > NAPI context. So for example we already have napi_alloc_skb, why not just add > a napi_free_skb and then make the array of objects to be freed part of a pool > that could be used for either allocation or freeing? If the pool runs empty > you just allocate something like 8 or 16 new skb heads, and if you fill it you > just free half of the list?
The slab allocators provide something like a per cpu pool for you to optimize object alloc and free. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
