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Alexander Lobakin says: ==================== skbuff: micro-optimize flow dissection This little number makes all of the flow dissection functions take raw input data pointer as const (1-5) and shuffles the branches in __skb_header_pointer() according to their hit probability. The result is +20 Mbps per flow/core with one Flow Dissector pass per packet. This affects RPS (with software hashing), drivers that use eth_get_headlen() on their Rx path and so on. From v2 [1]: - reword some commit messages as a potential fix for NIPA; - no functional changes. From v1 [0]: - rebase on top of the latest net-next. This was super-weird, but I double-checked that the series applies with no conflicts, and then on Patchwork it didn't; - no other changes. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210312194538.337504-1-alobakin@pm.me [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210313113645.5949-1-alobakin@pm.me ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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