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Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
>> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>> Each IP compression tunnel instance does an alloc_percpu().
>> Actually all IPComp tunnels share one set of objects which are
>> allocated per-cpu.  So only the first tunnel would do that.
> 
> Ahh so the need to be able to expand per cpu memory storage on demand 
> is not as critical as we thought.
> 

Yes, but still desirable for future optimizations.

For example, I do think using a per cpu memory storage on net_device refcnt & 
last_rx could give us some speedups.