On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:32:59PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, at 14:19, Richard Cochran wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:51:37PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > > netstamp_needed is toggled for all socket families if they request > > > timestamping. But some protocols don't need the lower-layer timestamping > > > code at all. This patch starts disabling it for af-unix. > > > > What problem is this patch trying to solve? > > netstamp_needed is a static-key which enables timestamping code in the > networking stack receive functions for every packet, while it is not > needed for AF_UNIX/LOCAL. So it is merely a small performance > enhancement.
Are there any numbers that show the effect of this enhancement? Thanks, Richard -- 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