On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Alexander Duyck wrote: > were to create a per-cpu pool for skbs that could be freed and allocated in > NAPI context. So for example we already have napi_alloc_skb, why not just add > a napi_free_skb and then make the array of objects to be freed part of a pool > that could be used for either allocation or freeing? If the pool runs empty > you just allocate something like 8 or 16 new skb heads, and if you fill it you > just free half of the list? The slab allocators provide something like a per cpu pool for you to optimize object alloc and free. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>