Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:49:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dst_entry structure use,lastuse and refcnt abstraction |
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:40:25 -0700 (PDT) > > > Nothing as far as I can tell. The main benefit may be reorganization of > > the code. > > You told us way back in the original thread that the final atomic dec > shows up very much on NUMA, and if it could be avoided (and changed > into a read test), it would help a lot on NUMA.
No I told you that we need to disassemble the atomic dec_and_test in order to be able to split the counters.
> > Yes and it was recently changed. Typical use is linux-xxx@vger.kernel.org > > netdev@oss.sgi.com is what used to be the place for networking > stuff, it's not netdev@vger.kernel.org
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