Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751374AbVKXPYi (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:24:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751373AbVKXPYh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:24:37 -0500 Received: from fw5.argo.co.il ([194.90.79.130]:43794 "EHLO argo2k.argo.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbVKXPYh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:24:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4385DB32.7010605@argo.co.il> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:24:34 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Benjamin LaHaise , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Grover , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com, christopher.leech@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support References: <4384E7F2.2030508@pobox.com> <20051123223007.GA5921@wotan.suse.de> <20051124001700.GC14246@kvack.org> <20051124065037.GZ20775@brahms.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20051124065037.GZ20775@brahms.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Nov 2005 15:24:34.0905 (UTC) FILETIME=[2CD57C90:01C5F10B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 35 Andi Kleen wrote: >>Don't forget that there are benefits of not polluting the cache with the >>traffic for the incoming skbs. >> >> > >Is that a general benefit outside benchmarks? I would expect >most real programs to actually do something with the data >- and that usually involves needing it in cache. > > > As an example, an NFS server reads some data pages using iSCSI and sends them using NFS/TCP (or vice versa). >>In the I/O AT case it might make sense to do a few prefetch()es of the >>userland data on the return-to-userspace code path. >> >> > >Some prefetches for user space might be a good idea yes > > > As long as they can be turned off. Not all usespace applications want to touch the data immediately. - 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/