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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:50:49 +0200
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Christoph Lameter a =E9crit :
>=20
> It should really be do_set_mempolicy instead to be cleaner. I got a pat=
ch=20
> here that fixes the policy layer.
>=20
> But still I agree with Christoph that a real vmalloc_node is better. Th=
ere=20
> will be no fuzzing around with memory policies etc and its certainly=20
> better performance wise.

vmalloc_node() should be seldom used, at driver init, or when a new ip_ta=
bles=20
is loaded. If it happens to be a performance problem, then we can optimiz=
e it.
Why should we spend days of work for a function that is yet to be used ?

Eric