netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC V2 2/2] net: Optimize snmp stat aggregation by walking all the percpu data at once

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:59:51 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, jiri@...nulli.us, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
	tom@...bertland.com, azhou@...ira.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	ipm@...rality.org.uk, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	serge.hallyn@...onical.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, anton@....ibm.com,
	nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 2/2] net: Optimize snmp stat aggregation by
 walking all the percpu data at once

On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 17:35 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> That of course depends on what a "leaf" is and
> whether or not any other function call in the
> "leaf" consumes stack.
> 
> inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs does call other functions
> (none of which has the stack frame size of k.alloc)

Just define/use this automatic array in the damn leaf function.

That should not be hard, and maybe no one will complain and we can
work on more complex issues.


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