Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

David Miller
2007-11-12T22:46:50Z

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:18:17 +0100

> 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 !

Yes I like it too. It's in my backlog of things to test on
sparc64.