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 chain.
Seems very hackish because it only works inside the driver. Also there is a reason why Linux doesn't support this normally - it wrecks the unified memory management because you won't free your pools on memory pressure. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
