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SubjectRe: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:21:07AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai a écrit :
> >On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Why not use a boot time allocated percpu area (as done today in
> setup_per_cpu_areas()), but instead of reserving extra space for module's
> percpu data, being able to serve alloc_percpu() from this reserved area (ie
> no kmalloced data anymore), and keeping your

At that time ia64 placed a limit on the max size of per-CPU area
(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM). I think that the limit is still there, But hopefully
64K per-CPU should be enough for static + dynamic + modules?

Let me do a allyesconfig on my box and verify.

Thanks,
Kiran
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