From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:31:49 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:40197 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:31:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 19:35:04 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "David S. Miller" 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 Message-ID: <20020807193504.I24631@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20020804.223746.89817190.davem@redhat.com> <20020807152423.3577a5cc.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20020807192314.H24631@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20020807.111843.15996855.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020807.111843.15996855.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:43AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.