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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:18:17 +0100
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Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> For example, I do think using a per cpu memory storage on net_device refcnt &
>> last_rx could give us some speedups.
> 
> Note that there was a new patchset posted (titled cpu alloc v1) that 
> provides on demand extension of the cpu areas.
> 
> See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119438261304093&w=2

Thank you Christoph. I was traveling last week so I missed that.

This new patchset looks very interesting, you did a fantastic job !