On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any plans to add the bulk page count updates back at some point? I > just got around to adding it for igb in commit bd4171a5d4c2 ("igb: > update code to better handle incrementing page count"). I should have > patches for ixgbe, i40e, and i40evf here pretty soon. That was one of > the reasons why I implemented __page_frag_cache_drain in the first > place. As I'm sure Jesper will probably point out the atomic op for > get_page/page_ref_inc can be pretty expensive if I recall correctly. As a matter of fact I did this last week, but could not show any improvement on one TCP flow, so decided to not include this in this patch series. Maybe the issue was more a sender issue, I might revisit this later.