Hi Jose, > Thank you all for your review comments ! > > From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org> > > > That's why i was concerned on what will happen on > 1000b frames and what > > the > > memory pressure is going to be. > > The trade off here is copying vs mapping/unmapping. > > Well, the performance numbers I mentioned are for TSO with default MTU > (1500) and using iperf3 with zero-copy. Here follows netperf: >
Ok i guess this should be fine. Here's why. You'll allocate an extra memory from page pool API which equals the number of descriptors * 1 page. You also allocate SKB's to copy the data and recycle the page pool buffers. So page_pool won't add any significant memory pressure since we expect *all* it's buffers to be recycled. The SKBs are allocated anyway in the current driver so bottom line you trade off some memory (the page_pool buffers) + a memcpy per packet and skip the dma map/unmap which is the bottleneck in your hardware. I think it's fine Cheers /Ilias
