Hi Dave, On Sunday, 23. April 2006 07:56, David S. Miller wrote: > > If cacheline bouncing because of the shared filled_entries becomes an issue, > > you are receiving or sending a lot. > > Cacheline bouncing is the core issue being addressed by this > data structure, so we really can't consider your idea seriously.
Ok, I can see it now more clearly. Many thanks for clearing that up in the other replies. I had a major misunderstanding there. > I've just got an off-by-one error, no need to wreck the entire > data structure just to solve that :-) Yes, you are right. But even then I can still implement the reserve/commit once you provide the helpers for producer_space and consumer_space. Regards Ingo Oeser - 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