netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/10 net-next] Introduce per interface ipv4 statistics

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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:55:18 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	igorm@....rs, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10 net-next] Introduce per interface ipv4 statistics

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Or we could use a hierarchical split : Say 16 (or 32 or 64) cpus share
> same counters (must be atomic if NR_CPUS > 16/32/64)

Then you'd need to have locking or full atomic operations for the
counters. Reduction of network processing to a set of processors also will
have other beneficial effects in addition to cache hotness. It would
removing OS jitter etc etc.

> percpu_alloc() -> percpugroup_alloc()

Sounds like a per cpuset/cgroup allocation?

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