Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:31:00 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks | | From | David Miller <> | |
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:02:11 +0100
> But, isnt it defeating the purpose of this *particular* vmalloc() use ?
>
> CONFIG_NUMA and vmalloc() at boot time means :
>
> Try to distribute the pages on several nodes.
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> Memory pressure on ehash_locks[] is so high we definitly want to spread it.
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> (for similar uses of vmalloc(), see also hashdist=1 )
>
> Also, please CC netdev for network patches :)
I agree with Eric, converting any of the networking hash
allocations to this new facility is not the right thing
to do.
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