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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: (RFC): SKB Initialization
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>, davem@redhat.com
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>>I think the skbinit patch and recycling skbs are mutually exclusive.

>I would say they are more orthogonal than mutually exclusive.
>Although ou still need to prove that relocating the code actually helps in
>real life. On paper it looks good.
Troy Wilson (who works with me) posted SPECweb99 results using my
skbinit patch to lkml on Friday:
 http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.2/1470.html
I know you don't subscribe to lkml. Have you seen these results?
On Numa machine it showed around 3% improvement using SPECweb99.


Regards,
    Mala


   Mala Anand
   IBM Linux Technology Center - Kernel Performance
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   http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linuxperf
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