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

Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22T15:51:25Z

Christoph Lameter a écrit :
>
> 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.

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

Eric