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Add page pool for RX buffers for faster buffer cycle and reduce CPU usage. The standard page pool API is used. With iperf and 128 threads test, this patch improved the throughput by 12-15%, and decreased the IRQ associated CPU's usage from 99-100% to 10-50%. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.