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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121112410.26682@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:14:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu
access overhead
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 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.
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