Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> vmalloc_node() should be seldom used, at driver init, or when a new ip_tables
> is loaded. If it happens to be a performance problem, then we can optimize it.

Allright. However, there are a couple of uses of vmalloc_node that I can 
see right now and they will likely increase in the future.

> Why should we spend days of work for a function that is yet to be used ?

I already did a vmalloc_node patch. So no need for spending days of work. 
The patch can wait until it becomes performance critical.


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