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From: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make per interface sysctl entries configurable
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:07:55 +0200
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Very interesting patch, because i have PPPoE and sysctl locking issue my issue 
N1(accorting to perf and oprofile) on massive pppoe login and during 
operation.
Probably i will try to apply it on one of loaded (but redundant, in case it 
will crash) pppoe.

On Sunday 25 October 2009 19:54:49 Octavian Purdila wrote:
> RFC patches are attached.
>
> Another possible approach: add an interface flag and use it to decide
> whether we want per interface sysctl entries or not.
>
> Benchmarks for creating 1000 interface (with the ndst module previously
> posted on the list, ppc750 @800Mhz machine):
>
> - without the patches:
>
> real    4m 38.27s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     2m 18.90s
>
> - with the patches:
>
> real    0m 0.10s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 0.05s
>
> Thanks,
> tavi