Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263355AbUDVW06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:26:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263429AbUDVW06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:26:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:18828 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263355AbUDVW05 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:26:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:25:25 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Andi Kleen Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua Subject: Re: Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h Message-Id: <20040422152525.28ee1d5f.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040422222326.GA81305@colin2.muc.de> References: <20040422222326.GA81305@colin2.muc.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 16 On 23 Apr 2004 00:23:26 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > Of course, but it would be good to see some measurements. > > It's useless in this case. networking is dominated by cache misses > and locks and a modern CPU can do hundreds of function calls in a > single cache miss. Indeed, this change does influence the I-cache footprint of the networking, so I conclude that it is relevant in this case. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/