On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 14:24 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > Changes since v1: > - in last patch, remove unneeded parens and casts, > pointed out by Sergei Shtylyov. > > v1 cover letter: > > e1000 driver preallocates skbs, then sends them up the stack. > > This patch series changes the rx routine to only preallocate > packet buffers, then allocate the skb right before sending the > packet up the stack. > > This gives slight performance inprovements as the skb will be > fresh in the cache once its allocated/initialized. > > The default-mtu 1500 path is converted to > build_skb()/netdev_alloc_frag. > > Jumbo path is converted to napi_gro_frags. > > Note that this has only been tested with > kvms e1000 emulation.
Thanks Florian, I have added this series to my queue.
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