Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/21] netgpu/nvidia: add Nvidia plugin for netgpu

2020-07-28 Thread Chris Mason
On 28 Jul 2020, at 13:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 01:18:48PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: come after in the future. Jonathan, I think we need to do a better job talking about patches that are just meant to enable possible users vs patches that we actually hope the

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/21] netgpu/nvidia: add Nvidia plugin for netgpu

2020-07-28 Thread Chris Mason
On 28 Jul 2020, at 12:31, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:44:44PM -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: From: Jonathan Lemon This provides the interface between the netgpu core module and the nvidia kernel driver. This should be built as an external module, pointing to the nvidia build. Fo

Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Mason
On 6 Mar 2018, at 11:12, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: As the first step in development of bpfilter project [1] the request_module() code is extended to allow user mode helpers to be invoked. Idea is that user mode helpers are built as part of

Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] xfs: Transmit flow steering

2016-08-31 Thread Chris Mason
On 08/30/2016 08:00 PM, Tom Herbert wrote: XFS maintains a per device flow table that is indexed by the skbuff hash. The XFS table is only consulted when there is no queue saved in a transmit socket for an skbuff. Each entry in the flow table contains a queue index and a queue pointer. The que

Re: [RFC] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

2015-06-11 Thread Chris Mason
On 06/11/2015 05:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 17:16 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: >> On 06/11/2015 04:48 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >> networking is asking for 32KB, and the MM layer is doing what it can to >> provide it. Are the gains from getting

Re: [RFC] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

2015-06-11 Thread Chris Mason
On 06/11/2015 04:48 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 13:24 -0700, Shaohua Li wrote: >> We saw excessive memory compaction triggered by skb_page_frag_refill. >> This causes performance issues. Commit 5640f7685831e0 introduces the >> order-3 allocation to improve performance. But memor