From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: willy@debian.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, george@mvista.com,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: softirq parameters
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 19:35:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807193504.I24631@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020807.111843.15996855.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:43AM -0700
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-04 16:26 Matthew Wilcox
2002-08-04 17:38 ` george anzinger
2002-08-05 5:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-07 5:24 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-07 18:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-08-07 18:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-07 18:35 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-08-07 18:24 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-08 2:29 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-08 5:13 ` Rusty Russell
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