Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 26/27] igb: Update code to better handle incrementing page count

2016-10-26 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 11:39 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch updates the driver code so that we do bulk updates of the page > reference count instead of just incrementing it by one reference at a > time. > The advantage to doing this is that we cut down on atomic operations and > this in

[net-next PATCH 26/27] igb: Update code to better handle incrementing page count

2016-10-25 Thread Alexander Duyck
This patch updates the driver code so that we do bulk updates of the page reference count instead of just incrementing it by one reference at a time. The advantage to doing this is that we cut down on atomic operations and this in turn should give us a slight improvement in cycles per packet. In a