[openib-general] sdp: kill sdp buff pool

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Sun Sep 11 02:05:55 PDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:41:56PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> SDP seems to have a re-implementation of kmem_cache in sdp_buff.
> Killing it actually results in a small bandwidth increase
> for both bcopy and zcopy versions, so I plan to put this in.
> 
> Note that sdp_buff_pool_chain_link is now same as sdp_buff_pool_put,
> and sdp_buff_pool_chain_put is now a nop, but I decided to
> keep it in for now, just in case there's another use for it.

Btw, the whole sdb_buff code looks a little like it's duplicating the
network layers sk_buff code.  Anyone looking into this higher-level
thing?




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