On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 03/23/2018 02:53 PM, Mathias Kresin wrote:
>> As long as nobody proves that there is a real performance gain, I don't
>> see a reason to backport the datastruct debloat.
Well, it's supposed to make a difference in routing.
>
> Agreed, i
On 03/23/2018 02:53 PM, Mathias Kresin wrote:
> As long as nobody proves that there is a real performance gain, I don't
> see a reason to backport the datastruct debloat.
Agreed, it will also make it a tad harder to merge stable kernels with
these changes applied.
Rosen, if you are willing to sta
23.03.2018 19:19, Rosen Penev:
This patch series shrinks the networking structs in order to reduce cache
misses. This has performance benefits in routing.
Full details here:
https://www.netdevconf.org/2.2/slides/miller-datastructurebloat-keynote.pdf
I'm keeping this for kernel 4.14 as it's ea
