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DateTue, 13 Sep 2005 09:26:59 -0700
FromStephen Hemminger <>
SubjectRe: [patch 7/11] net: Use bigrefs for net_device.refcount
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:10:12 -0700
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:

> The net_device has a refcnt used to keep track of it's uses.
> This is used at the time of unregistering the network device
> (module unloading ..) (see netdev_wait_allrefs) .
> For loopback_dev , this refcnt increment/decrement is causing
> unnecessary traffic on the interlink for NUMA system
> affecting it's performance. This patch improves tbench numbers by 6% on a
> 8way x86 Xeon (x445).
>

Since when is bringing a network device up/down performance critical?
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