Re: [patch 7/11] net: Use bigrefs for net_device.refcount

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:10:12 -0700
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:

> The net_device has a refcnt used to keep track of it's uses.
> This is used at the time of unregistering the network device
> (module unloading ..) (see netdev_wait_allrefs) .
> For loopback_dev , this refcnt increment/decrement  is causing
> unnecessary traffic on the interlink for NUMA system
> affecting it's performance.  This patch improves tbench numbers by 6% on a
> 8way x86 Xeon (x445).
> 

Since when is bringing a network device up/down performance critical?
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