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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>, Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 ] ixgbe: speed up transmit
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:48:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151211084819.2177795d@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447431013-23245-1-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org>

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:10:13 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
> 
> The freeing of mbuf's in ixgbe is one of the observable hot spots
> under load. Optimize it by doing bulk free of mbufs using code similar
> to i40e and fm10k.
> 
> Drop the no longer needed micro-optimization for the no refcount flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

How come this patch got no review or comments?
It gets a visible performance gain of up to 10% in some cases.

I understand maintainers are busy with internal work, but they need
to read mailing list as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-11 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-13 16:10 Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-11 16:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-12-11 18:52   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-02-10 15:19     ` Bruce Richardson

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