From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:57:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej83z0va.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482C9FC5.2070508@cosmosbay.com> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:37 +0200")
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> writes:
> Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use
> num_possible_cpus*sizeof(local_t) bytes.
>
> On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8,
More typical would be NR_CPUS=128, with NR_CPUS=four digits
when Mike Travis et.al. are finished
> shiping 2000 modules, we reduce
Surely only the loaded modules count? Perhaps 20-30.
But it's a cool improvement. Very nice.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 20:40 [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting Eric Dumazet
2008-05-15 21:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-05-16 4:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-16 0:09 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 5:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-16 13:41 ` Mike Travis
2008-05-17 5:33 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-17 7:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-18 14:31 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-19 16:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-19 18:04 ` Mike Travis
2008-05-19 16:39 ` Christoph Lameter
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2009-02-03 3:01 Rusty Russell
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