On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 20:31 +0200, Anton Gary Ceph wrote:
> After a few profiling and analysis, turned out that the ethertype field
> of the packets has the following distribution:
[...]
> 0.6% don't know/no opinion
Am I the only one finding the submission date and the above info
suspicious ?
Hi Anton, everyone,
On 04/01/18 15:31, Anton Gary Ceph wrote:
> As the Linux networking stack is growing, more and more protocols are
> added, increasing the complexity of stack itself.
> Modern processors, contrary to common belief, are very bad in branch
> prediction, so it's our task to give hi
Hi Anton,
Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
[auto build test WARNING on net/master]
[also build test WARNING on v4.16 next-20180329]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system]
url:
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/
On 04/01/2018 11:31 AM, Anton Gary Ceph wrote:
> As the Linux networking stack is growing, more and more protocols are
> added, increasing the complexity of stack itself.
> Modern processors, contrary to common belief, are very bad in branch
> prediction, so it's our task to give hints to the com
Yes, I'm also seeing good performance improvement after adding
likely() and prefetch().
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger
wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:31:21 +0200
> Anton Gary Ceph wrote:
>
>> As the Linux networking stack is growing, more and more protocols are
>> added, incr
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:31:21 +0200
Anton Gary Ceph wrote:
> As the Linux networking stack is growing, more and more protocols are
> added, increasing the complexity of stack itself.
> Modern processors, contrary to common belief, are very bad in branch
> prediction, so it's our task to give hints
As the Linux networking stack is growing, more and more protocols are
added, increasing the complexity of stack itself.
Modern processors, contrary to common belief, are very bad in branch
prediction, so it's our task to give hints to the compiler when possible.
After a few profiling and analysis,
