Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:08:47 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > Oh, and because vm_acct_memory() is counting a singleton object, it can use > DEFINE_PER_CPU rather than alloc_percpu(), so it saves on a bit of kmalloc > overhead.
Actually, I don't think that's true. we're allocating a sizeof(long) with kmalloc_node() so there shouldn't be memory wastage.
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