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Re: [RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables

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On 10/19/2015 09:10 AM, yalin wang wrote:
> This patch change map_lookup_elem() and map_update_elem() function
> to use u64 temp variable if the key_size or value_size is less than
> u64, we don't need use kmalloc() for these small variables.
>
> Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>

 From an application PoV that has to make the bpf(2) syscall, how
much do we actually gain from this? I'm curious, did you perform
some benchmarks that show a noticeable difference?
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[RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 09:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> - 2015-10-19 11:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC] bpf: change bpf syacall to use u64 temp variables Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 21:10 +0200

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