RE: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-21 Thread Haruki Dai-r35557
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:48 AM > To: Haruki Dai-r35557 > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fleming Andy-afleming; Kumar > Gala; Haruki Dai-r35557 > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recyclin

Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:45:14 -0700 "Haruki Dai-r35557" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch improves the IP forwarding throughput of > the Freescale TSEC/eTSEC Gianfar driver. By recycling > the Socket buffer and Data buffer, reduce the unnecessary > memory allocation and de-allocation in the f

Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-18 Thread Andi Kleen
> > With grant of the description, it looks negative in the memory management, > but actually, the amount of memory usage in the driver layer is less than > the ordinaly gianfar (around half), especially the NAPI is enable. This > recycling is introduced in order to chop down the critical path memo

RE: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-17 Thread Haruki Dai-r35557
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:49 PM > To: Haruki Dai-r35557 > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fleming Andy-afleming; Kumar > Gala; Haruki Dai-r35557 > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recyclin

RE: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-17 Thread Haruki Dai-r35557
> -Original Message- > From: Andi Kleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:56 PM > To: Haruki Dai-r35557 > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fleming Andy-afleming; Kumar Gala > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support > > On Thursday 1

Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 18 May 2006 00:45, Haruki Dai-r35557 wrote: > This patch improves the IP forwarding throughput of > the Freescale TSEC/eTSEC Gianfar driver. By recycling > the Socket buffer and Data buffer, reduce the unnecessary > memory allocation and de-allocation in the forwarding > processing chai

Re: [PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:45:14 -0700 "Haruki Dai-r35557" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch improves the IP forwarding throughput of > the Freescale TSEC/eTSEC Gianfar driver. By recycling > the Socket buffer and Data buffer, reduce the unnecessary > memory allocation and de-allocation in the f

[PATCH] Gianfar SKB Recycling Support

2006-05-17 Thread Haruki Dai-r35557
This patch improves the IP forwarding throughput of the Freescale TSEC/eTSEC Gianfar driver. By recycling the Socket buffer and Data buffer, reduce the unnecessary memory allocation and de-allocation in the forwarding processing chain. Signed-off-by: Dai Haruki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: A