netdev - Re: [PATCH] rps: make distributing packets fairly among all the online CPUs default

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Message-ID: <412e6f7f1003230427t1cf0f1e6t402f6c7cc542c62f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:27:45 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rps: make distributing packets fairly among all the 
	online CPUs default

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 17:56 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> > Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 14:24 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
>> >
>> > You cannot do this like this, these allocations wont be freed.
>> >
>> > Better would be to take a look at net/core/net-sysfs.c
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't know why these allocations won't be freed.
>>
>>
>
> Hint : This will be freed only if CONFIG_SYSFS is set
>

got it, thanks. But I just wonder if it is right the life cycle of
rps_map is maintained by sysfs rather than netdev itself.



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Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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