Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422677AbWA0XVK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:21:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422678AbWA0XVJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:21:09 -0500 Received: from mf01.sitadelle.com ([212.94.174.68]:2727 "EHLO smtp.cegetel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422677AbWA0XVI (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:21:08 -0500 Message-ID: <43DAAAE3.2030107@cosmosbay.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:21:07 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai 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 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> <20060127225036.GC3565@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060127225036.GC3565@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1320 Lines: 36 Ravikiran G Thirumalai a ?crit : > 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. > Well, nice work ! :) Maybe a litle bit complicated if expected percpu space is 50 KB per cpu ? Why not use a boot time allocated percpu area (as done today in setup_per_cpu_areas()), but instead of reserving extra space for module's percpu data, being able to serve alloc_percpu() from this reserved area (ie no kmalloced data anymore), and keeping your #define per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu) ((__typeof__(ptr)) \ (RELOC_HIDE(ptr, PCPU_BLKSIZE * cpu))) Some code from kernel/module.c could be reworked to serve both as an allocator when a module percpudata must be relocated (insmod)/freed (rmmod), and serve alloc_percpu() for 'dynamic allocations' Eric - 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/