Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 19:35:04 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: softirq parameters |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:43AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I'm starting to become leery about this percpu stuff, which ends up > moving critical data structures (in this case softnet) out of the main > kernel image (and thus out of the single large PAGE_SIZE entry many > platforms use to map that part of the kernel). > > Since all the per-cpu stuff ends up in the same cluster of bootmem > it probably doesn't matter so much. Here's to hoping that's true :-)
Hrm, I didn't realise what the implementation of percpu was... does it work for modules?
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