Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net_sched: bulk dequeue and deferred drops

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:47:36 +0200

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 23:16:48 -0700
Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> First patch adds an additional parameter to ->enqueue() qdisc method
> so that drops can be done outside of critical section
> (after locks are released).
> 
> Then fq_codel can have a small optimization to reduce number of cache
> lines misses during a drop event
> (possibly accumulating hundreds of packets to be freed).
> 
> A small htb change exports the backlog in class dumps.
> 
> Final patch adds bulk dequeue to qdiscs that were lacking this feature.
> 
> This series brings a nice qdisc performance increase (more than 80 %
> in some cases).

Thanks for working on this Eric! this is great work! :-)

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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