Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I would think a non-conditional deref would be easily pipelined.
> If the net_device struct was more cache dense, it probably would
> even out.
It might be a good idea to consider strategic prefetch points for it.
e.g. TCP executes quite a lot of
David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:23:16 -0700
Vlan code uses several of the methods, so I'm not sure how it will save
any memory
Feeling particularly dense today?
Ahh, yes indeed.
Ben
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Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Candela Tec
On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:05:29 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:54:13 -0400
>
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
> > > move them to 'struct net_
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:54:13 -0400
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
> > move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the
> > case of lots of devices, as well as reduce init
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the
case of lots of devices, as well as reduce initialization code.
It will also add an additional deref to every operation, right?
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:07:37 -0700
> I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
> move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the
> case of lots of devices, as well as reduce initialization code.
>
> Rough
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:23:16 -0700
> Vlan code uses several of the methods, so I'm not sure how it will save
> any memory
Feeling particularly dense today?
Only one copy of the ops will be needed for all vlan devices:
static const struct netdev_ops vlan_
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and
move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the
case of lots of devices, as well as reduce initialization code.
Rough plan:
1. Introduce inline accessors so protocols don't dereferenc
