On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:42:00 +0100 uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote: > This patch also it removes the current limit on the number of frames > PACKET_MMAP can hold. Currently the buffer can hold only > 0.15 seconds at a 1 Gb/s in a 32 bit architecture, half > this amount in a 64 bit machine. > > With this patch, PACKET_MMAP requires __less memory__ > to hold the buffer. > > I have rearranged the most used members of struct packet_opt so they > fit in a single cache line. > > Any comment would be greatly appreciated You're basically trading memory overhead for computational overhead. And in this case I think that's fine. I think your patch is fine and I'm going to apply it. Can you cook up a 2.4.x version of this for me? Thanks. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
