Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Mar 20 2017 - 09:40:59 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:39:37AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Can we at least give a benchmark and have someone run numbers? We should
> be able to quantify these things.

Do you realise how many times this thing gets hit at 10Gb/s or
higher? Anyway, since you're proposing this change you should
demonstrate that it does not cause a performance regression.

Cheers,
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