ixgbe: recycle pages in packet split mode
most of the time we only need 1500 bytes for a packet which means we don't need a whole 4k page for each packet. Share the allocation by using a reference count to the page and giving half to two receive descriptors. This can enable us to use packet split mode all the time due to the performance increase of allocating half the pages. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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