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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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