netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: better pcpu data alignment

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Message-Id: <20111108.151730.2028643765538113036.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:17:30 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: better pcpu data alignment

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:19:28 +0100

> Tunnels can force an alignment of their percpu data to reduce number of
> cache lines used in fast path, or read in .ndo_get_stats()
> 
> percpu_alloc() is a very fine grained allocator, so any small hole will
> be used anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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