> -Original Message-
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 1:04 PM
> To: Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu
> Cc: de...@driverdev.osuosl.org; stuyo...@gmail.com; a...@arndb.de;
> linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; ag...@suse.de; Bharat Bhushan
> ; Bogdan Purcareata
> ; linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org;
> Laurentiu Tudor
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Reorder priv fields
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:38AM -0500, Ioana Radulescu wrote:
> > Reorder fields in the device's private structure such that
> > the ones most used on the hotpath are at the beginning of
> > the structure.
> >
> > This brings a small performance improvement due to better
> > cache usage.
>
> Really? What kind of performance improvement? Always be specific.
Fair point, thanks.
The test scenario was ipfwd with small frames and the improvement ~1%,
but I took this patch from an internal repo, so I need to redo the
measurements on the current tree before resending.
>
> Please fix up and resend.
We're preparing a larger patchset with several optimizations, I'll
probably include the v2 there.
Thanks,
Ioana
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