On Saturday 21 April 2007 22:23:21 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been looking at optimizing the network per CPU statistics and the best > > way > > to > > do that would be to move them back to direct per CPU data. Currently they > > are > > allocated separately because there used to be some trouble on x86 (and > > ia64?) > > with limited per CPU areas. At least the x86 side has been fixed now. I > > heard > > there were some problems with ia64 have those been fixed too? > > Anybody would have a problem with increasing per CPU data in a standard > > kernel > > by a few KB? > > Andi which areas are you looking at modifying. I'm trying to get a feel > to see if your changes will have an effect on the network namespace work.
Just the internal implementation of the statistics. Not very many changes outside those include files -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
