Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a prefetch in socket backlog processing

On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 08:34 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Basically this patch avoids one memory cache miss per iteration.

This patch was the easy part.

I am now working on refining __skb_dequeue() API to avoid the cache line
miss when we perform the __skb_unlink() and allow a prefetch(next) as
well, to speedup process_backlog().