On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Each IP compression tunnel instance does an alloc_percpu().
> > > Actually all IPComp tunnels share one set of objects which are
> > > allocated per-cpu. So only the first tunnel would do that.
> >
> > Ahh so the need to be able to expand per cpu memory storage on demand is not
> > as critical as we thought.
> >
>
> Yes, but still desirable for future optimizations.
>
> For example, I do think using a per cpu memory storage on net_device refcnt &
> last_rx could give us some speedups.
Note that there was a new patchset posted (titled cpu alloc v1) that
provides on demand extension of the cpu areas.
See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119438261304093&w=2
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