On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:10:13 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming at brocade.com> > > The freeing of mbuf's in ixgbe is one of the observable hot spots > under load. Optimize it by doing bulk free of mbufs using code similar > to i40e and fm10k. > > Drop the no longer needed micro-optimization for the no refcount flag. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> How come this patch got no review or comments? It gets a visible performance gain of up to 10% in some cases. I understand maintainers are busy with internal work, but they need to read mailing list as well.
