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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:32:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : convert ip_rt_acct to per_cpu variables

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:52 +0100

> [PATCH] NET : NET_CLS_ROUTE : convert ip_rt_acct to per_cpu variables
> 
> ip_rt_acct needs 4096 bytes per cpu to perform some accounting.
> It is actually allocated as a single huge array [4096*NR_CPUS]
> (rounded up to a power of two)
> 
> Converting it to a per cpu variable is wanted to :
>  - Save space on machines were num_possible_cpus() < NR_CPUS
>  - Better NUMA placement (each cpu gets memory on its node)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Applied to net-2.6.25, thanks Eric.
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