Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 23:57:45 +0200 |
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Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> writes: > Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use > num_possible_cpus*sizeof(local_t) bytes. > > On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8,
More typical would be NR_CPUS=128, with NR_CPUS=four digits when Mike Travis et.al. are finished
> shiping 2000 modules, we reduce
Surely only the loaded modules count? Perhaps 20-30.
But it's a cool improvement. Very nice.
-Andi
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