Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NET]: uninline skb_put, de-bloats a lot

[David Miller]

From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:50 -0700

> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:38 +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > Allyesconfig (v2.6.24-mm1):
> 
> I think this change is only good in severely memory
> limited uses.  This will very likely negatively impact
> high speed networking.  It's a speed/size trade off.

I severely doubt this, the bulk of the overhead of
skb_put() is the atomic operation, not whether the
instructions get executed inline or not.

Please run some tests before making claims like this.
I might give you some slack in this area if you've
been doing networking performance tuning for 10+ years
but you haven't.
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