From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:10:13 -0700
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> > This patchset contains alloc_percpu + bigrefs + bigrefs for netdevice
> > refcount. This patchset improves tbench lo performance by 6% on a 8 way IBM
> > x445.
>
> I think we'd need more comprehensive benchmarks than this before adding
> large amounts of complex core code.
I agree. tbench over loopback is about as far from real life
as it gets.
I'm still against expanding these networking datastructures with
bigrefs just for this stuff. Some people have per-cpu and per-node on
the brain, and it's starting to bloat things up a little bit too much.
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