From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:54:32 +0100
> Maybe I read the patch incorrectly, or we could add some new sysctl so that > we not try to uncharge memory if a socket 'forward_alloc' is beyond a given > limit (say 2 pages), so that number of atomic_inc/dec on udp_memory_allocated > (or tcp_memory_allocated) is reduced. This is what we should be striving for, using forward_alloc as much as possible as a "cache" to avoid the atomics on the global var as much as possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html