Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 17:18 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

This patch does several things.

First it reorders the netdev_alloc_frag code so that only one conditional
check is needed in most cases instead of 2.

Second it incorporates the atomic_set and atomic_sub_return logic from an
earlier proposed patch by Eric Dumazet allowing for a reduction in the
get_page/put_page overhead when dealing with frags.

Finally it also incorporates the page reuse code so that if the page count
is dropped to 0 we can just reinitialize the page and reuse it.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
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Hmm, I was working on a version using order-3 pages if available.

(or more exactly 32768 bytes chunks)

I am not sure how your version can help with typical 1500 allocations
(2 skbs per page)