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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large
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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:24:24 +0530

> Please let me know if you have suggestions/comments.

Like Eric Dumazet said the idea is good but needs some adjustments.

You might want to see whether a per-cpu work buffer works for this.

It's extremely unfortunately that we can't depend upon the destination
buffer being properly aligned, because we wouldn't need a temporary
scratch area if it were aligned properly.
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