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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dst numa: Avoid dst counter cacheline bouncing
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Dipankar Sarma wrote:

> Do we really need to do a distributed reference counter implementation
> inside dst cache code ? If you are willing to wait for a while,
> we should have modified Rusty's bigref implementation on top of the 
> interleaving dynamic per-cpu allocator. We can look at distributed 
> reference counter for dst refcount then and see how that can be 
> worked out.

Is that code available somewhere?