netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] flow: better memory management

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Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] flow: better memory management

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:00:25 +0200

> Allocate hash tables for every online cpus, not every possible ones.
> 
> NUMA aware allocations.
> 
> Dont use a full page on arches where PAGE_SIZE > 1024*sizeof(void *)
> 
> misc:
>   __percpu , __read_mostly, __cpuinit annotations
>   flow_compare_t is just an "unsigned long"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

> +			return notifier_from_errno(res);	

Trailing whitespace, tsk tsk :-)
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