From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: kiran@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, akpm@digeo.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Change Networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu -- 1/3
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:34:27 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021204223427.GA23578@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021204.090152.97851491.davem@redhat.com>
Em Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:01:52AM -0800, David S. Miller escreveu:
> From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:05:10 +0530
>
> Here's a patchset to enable networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu instead
> of the traditional padded NR_CPUS arrays.
>
> Advantages:
> 1. Removes NR_CPUS bloat due to static definition
> 2. Can support node local allocation
> 3. Will work with modules
>
> I totally support this work. Once the kmalloc percpu bits hit
> Linus's tree, just retransmit these diffs to me privately and
> I'll put them into my net-2.5 tree.
Cool stuff! I was planning to macroise this so that things like this would be
possible without source impact but now its just there, keep it up :-)
- Arnaldo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-04 12:35 [patch] Change Networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu -- 1/3 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-12-04 12:37 ` [patch] Change Networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu -- 2/3 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-12-04 12:39 ` [patch] Change Networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu -- 3/3 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-12-04 17:01 ` [patch] Change Networking mibs to use kmalloc_percpu -- 1/3 David S. Miller
2002-12-04 22:34 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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