Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751586AbWA0Wug (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:50:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751589AbWA0Wug (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:50:36 -0500 Received: from ns1.siteground.net ([207.218.208.2]:26823 "EHLO serv01.siteground.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585AbWA0Wuf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:50:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:50:36 -0800 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pravins@calsoftinc.com Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated Message-ID: <20060127225036.GC3565@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060126185649.GB3651@localhost.localdomain> <20060126190357.GE3651@localhost.localdomain> <43D9DFA1.9070802@cosmosbay.com> <20060127195227.GA3565@localhost.localdomain> <20060127121602.18bc3f25.akpm@osdl.org> <43DA9EFF.1020200@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43DA9EFF.1020200@cosmosbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - serv01.siteground.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - scalex86.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 21 On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > There are several issues here : > > alloc_percpu() current implementation is a a waste of ram. (because it uses > slab allocations that have a minimum size of 32 bytes) Oh there was a solution for that :). http://lwn.net/Articles/119532/ I can quickly revive it if there is interest. Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/