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From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:50:36 -0800
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> There are several issues here :
> 
> alloc_percpu() current implementation is a a waste of ram. (because it uses 
> slab allocations that have a minimum size of 32 bytes)

Oh there was a solution for that :).  

http://lwn.net/Articles/119532/

I can quickly revive it if there is interest.


Thanks,
Kiran