Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance

Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22T15:38:04Z

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Thursday 22 September 2005 14:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Umm, no - adding set_fs/get_fs mess for things like that is not right.
>
> I think it's fine. We're using it for various other interfaces too. In fact
> sys_set_mempolicy is already used elsewhere in the kernel too.

It should really be do_set_mempolicy instead to be cleaner. I got a patch
here that fixes the policy layer.

But still I agree with Christoph that a real vmalloc_node is better. There
will be no fuzzing around with memory policies etc and its certainly
better performance wise.