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

Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22T15:55:33Z

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> vmalloc_node() should be seldom used, at driver init, or when a new ip_tables
> is loaded. If it happens to be a performance problem, then we can optimize it.

Allright. However, there are a couple of uses of vmalloc_node that I can
see right now and they will likely increase in the future.

> Why should we spend days of work for a function that is yet to be used ?

I already did a vmalloc_node patch. So no need for spending days of work.
The patch can wait until it becomes performance critical.