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 <> |
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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. > > Memory pressure on ehash_locks[] is so high we definitly want to spread it. > > (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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