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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, tj@kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, brgerst@gmail.com,
	cl@linux-foundation.org, travis@sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:34:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090121.123420.145043842.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121234502.66acbcf9@s6510>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:45:01 +1100

> This is crap. only a small fraction of these SNMP counters are
> close enough to the hot path to deserve per-cpu treatment.

Only if your router/firewall/webserver isn't hitting that code path
which bumps the counters you think aren't hot path.

It's a micro-DoS waiting to happen if we start trying to split
counters up into groups which matter for hot path processing
(and thus use per-cpu stuff) and those which don't (and thus
use atomics or whatever your idea is).

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090115183942.GA6325@elte.hu>
     [not found] ` <20090116001200.GA9137@gondor.apana.org.au>
     [not found]   ` <20090116001544.GA11073@elte.hu>
2009-01-16  0:18     ` [PATCH] percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors Herbert Xu
     [not found]       ` <200901170827.33729.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-16 22:08         ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]           ` <200901201328.24605.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-20  6:25             ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-20 10:36               ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]               ` <200901271213.18605.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-27  2:24                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-27 13:13                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-27 23:07                     ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-28  3:36                       ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-28  8:12                         ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-27 20:08                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-27 21:47                     ` David Miller
2009-01-27 22:47                       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-28  0:17                         ` Luck, Tony
2009-01-28 16:48                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-28 17:15                             ` Luck, Tony
2009-01-28 16:45                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-28 20:47                         ` David Miller
2009-01-28 10:38                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-28 10:56                     ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-29  2:06                       ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-31  6:11                         ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-28 16:50                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-28 18:07                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-01-29 18:33                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-29 18:48                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-20 10:40             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21  5:52               ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-21 10:05                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21 11:21                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-21 12:45                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-21 14:13                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-21 20:34                     ` David Miller [this message]

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