netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] flow: better memory management

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Message-ID: <87tyluk35t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:28:14 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] flow: better memory management

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:

> Allocate hash tables for every online cpus, not every possible ones.

There are some setups that boot most of the CPUs after boot.
On those this heuristic would be very wrong.

-Andi

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