From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com,
manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.1 network (socket) performance
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:59:14 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14Ximk-0003FW-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15002.60558.421029.405754@pizda.ninka.net> from "David S. Miller" at Feb 26, 2001 03:53:50 PM
> I'm still talking with Alexey about how to fix this, I might just
> prefer killing this fallback mechanism of skb_alloc_send_skb then
> make AF_UNIX act just like everyone else.
>
> This was always just a performance hack, and one which makes less
> and less sense as time goes on.
When I first did the hack it was worth about 20% performance, but at the time
the fallback allocation and initial allocations didnt eat into pools in a
problematic way
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-27 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-02-23 15:58 ` Linux 2.4.1 network (socket) performance Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-26 23:53 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27 11:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-02-22 16:11 Richard B. Johnson
2000-01-01 1:38 ` Pavel Machek
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