[openib-general] Reusing receive MADs
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Thu Nov 4 14:20:01 PST 2004
Sean> Is there any interest among people to reuse receive MADs?
Sean> I.e. once allocated and mapped, the receive MAD and work
Sean> request would be re-posted to the QP when freed.
I'm not sure this is that useful... MAD processing is not such a
super-hot path that we need to keep per-CPU lists of cache-hot buffers
(as is done for sk_buffs), and the kernel slab code should do a pretty
good job of reusing buffers anyway.
(The receive buffer needs to be unmapped before passing to the
consumer anyway so there's not a saving there)
- R.
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