Hi
After reading David's machines have NR_CPUS set to 4096, I realized how
fat was 'struct proto', since it uses a stats[NR_CPUS] field to keep
track of inuse sockets per protocol.
With NR_CPUS = 4096, this means we allocate 4096*SMP_CACHE_BYTES bytes
per 'struct proto'.
As these structures are static (data section of kernel), this grows data
kernel section by 256 KB per protocol.
This patch series does some cleanup and optimization.
[PATCH 1/4] NET : defines an infrastructure to keep 'inuse' changes in
an efficent SMP/NUMA way.
[PATCH 2/4] NET : makes ipv4 use the {DEFINE|REF}_PROTO_INUSE
infrastructure
[PATCH 3/4] NET : makes ipv6 use the {DEFINE|REF}_PROTO_INUSE
infrastructure
[PATCH 4/4] NET : makes sctp use the {DEFINE|REF}_PROTO_INUSE
infrastructure
Thank you
Eric
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