From: Rao Shoaib
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:53:19 -0800
> Also while I have your attention can I ask your opinion about
> breaking up some TCP functions, mostly control functions into
> smaller units so that if a little different behavior is desired it
> can be achieved and common code could still
On 03/06/2018 10:32 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 21:53 -0800, Rao Shoaib wrote:
David,
Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Do you have a specific
solution
in mind or will the calls be replaced with simple checks ?
There is upcoming work for that, but not specific to TCP s
On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 21:53 -0800, Rao Shoaib wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Do you have a specific
> solution
> in mind or will the calls be replaced with simple checks ?
There is upcoming work for that, but not specific to TCP stack.
>
> Also while I have your att
David,
Thanks a lot for your prompt response. Do you have a specific solution
in mind or will the calls be replaced with simple checks ?
Also while I have your attention can I ask your opinion about breaking
up some TCP functions, mostly control functions into smaller units so
that if a litt
From: Rao Shoaib
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 19:35:46 -0800
> I do not expect any measurable overhead as modern CPU's use
> pre-fetching and multiple parallel execution engines.
Please see Spectre and retpolines, all of this parallel execution and
prefetching is essentially disabled to address those v
I am working on a change which introduces a couple of indirect function
calls in the fast path. I used indirect function calls instead of
"if/else" as it keeps the code cleaner and more readable and provides
for extensibility.
I do not expect any measurable overhead as modern CPU's use pre-fet
