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.
Jakub Kicinski
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Eric Dumazet says: ==================== net: group together hot data While our recent structure reorganizations were focused on increasing max throughput, there is still an area where improvements are much needed. In many cases, a cpu handles one packet at a time, instead of a nice batch. Hardware interrupt. -> Software interrupt. -> Network/Protocol stacks. If the cpu was idle or busy in other layers, it has to pull many cache lines. This series adds a new net_hotdata structure, where some critical (and read-mostly) data used in rx and tx path is packed in a small number of cache lines. Synthetic benchmarks will not see much difference, but latency of single packet should improve. net_hodata current size on 64bit is 416 bytes, but might grow in the future. Also move RPS definitions to a new include file. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306160031.874438-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by:Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>