On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 04:58:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:52:03 -0700 > > > IIRC, there was a similar proposal a while back that want to bundle > > packets of the same flow together (without doing GRO) so that they > > could be processed by various functions by looking at just one > > representative packet in the group. The concept had some promise, but > > in the end it created quite a bit of complexity since at some point > > the packet bundle needed to be undone to go back to processing the > > individual packets. > > You're probably talking about Edward Cree's SKB list stuff, and as > per his presenation at netconf 2 weeks ago he plans to revitalize > it given how Spectre et al. gives cause to reevaluate all bulking > techniques. Are there patches for the proposal Edward did a while ago, or was it just a concept? Maybe we can somehow put things together, I just need some batching method that works for IPsec and UDP. It does not need to be exactly the one we proposing here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
