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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:10:13 -0700 > Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew, > > This patchset contains alloc_percpu + bigrefs + bigrefs for netdevice > > refcount. This patchset improves tbench lo performance by 6% on a 8 way IBM > > x445. > > I think we'd need more comprehensive benchmarks than this before adding > large amounts of complex core code. I agree. tbench over loopback is about as far from real life as it gets. I'm still against expanding these networking datastructures with bigrefs just for this stuff. Some people have per-cpu and per-node on the brain, and it's starting to bloat things up a little bit too much. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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