On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:25:14 -0700 > Tom Herbert via iovisor-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here is an agenda for the XDP summit. We expect this to be a lot of >> interactive conversation so the agenda can be dynamic as needed! >> > [...] >> 9:15-10:15 Implementation status > [...] >> - page pool > > Given I'll not participate physically, I'll give my page-pool status > here. > > The page-pool idea was presented at MM-summit in April 2016: > > http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2016/generic_page_pool_mm_summit2016.pdf > > Since I've written a more details design document (reviewed by Tom and > Alexei). I've not implemented any code for the page-pool yet. I've > read and discussed the current page-allocators per cpu caching of > order-0 pages with Mel Gorman. Mel is open to changes in this area. > We are looking at doing a "native" bulk between page-pool and > page-allocator, by aligning/sharing some of the same data-structures > (I see this as the page-pool "backend"). I want to prototype implement at > page-pool frontend, in-order to (1) benchmark if it is fast-enough > for perf-target, (2) to figure out the API drivers needs.
great. thanks for sharing. I'm not yet clear on front/back split here. I guess the patches will clear things out. btw we'll have bluejeans for remote attendees: https://bluejeans.com/603669621 _______________________________________________ iovisor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.iovisor.org/mailman/listinfo/iovisor-dev
