From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263075AbVFXDr3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:47:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263073AbVFXDr2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:47:28 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:41414 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263065AbVFXDrN (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:47:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050623.204702.26274560.davem@davemloft.net> To: christoph@lameter.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] dst_entry structure use,lastuse and refcnt abstraction From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <20050623.203647.88475017.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Lameter 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. > > NETWORKING [GENERAL] > > P: Networking Team > > M: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > L: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > S: Maintained > > > > Thanks. > > 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