On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:58:14PM +0000, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > Author: gnn > Date: Mon Nov 18 22:58:14 2013 > New Revision: 258328 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258328 > > Log: > Allow ethernet drivers to pass in packets connected via the nextpkt pointer. > Handling packets in this way allows drivers to amortize work during packet > reception.
yes. This is only a first step and eventually we should pass the entire batch to the netisr handler to further reduce overhead. Some of the followup emails suggested to change the argument from struct mbuf * to something else. I do think we should change it, but what we need is a struct with head and tail pointers _and_ a counter, because sometimes the code downstream may have to append the mbuf/batch to a queue, and these extra fields would save iterating through the chain. Related to this: at some point we should also address batching in the transmit path, and for that we will eventually need to introduce a 'more packets to come' flag to the API/mbuf so that intermediate functions in the path will build batches before passing them down. cheers luigi _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
