netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7] flow: structurize flow cache

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Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:01:04 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] flow: structurize flow cache

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:12:39PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
> Group all per-cpu data to one structure instead of having many
> globals. Also prepare the internals so that we can have multiple
> instances of the flow cache if needed.

Grouping everything together looks sane.  But adding the flow
cache pointer to everything seems to be unnecessary.  Why would
we need multiple flow caches?

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