On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > There are several issues here : > > alloc_percpu() current implementation is a a waste of ram. (because it uses > slab allocations that have a minimum size of 32 bytes) Oh there was a solution for that :). http://lwn.net/Articles/119532/ I can quickly revive it if there is interest. Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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