Re: [patch 9/11] net: dst_entry.refcount, use, lastuse to use alloc_percpu

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:12:16PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <redacted>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:07:37 -0700
...
But using bigrefs, no way.  We have enough trouble making the data
structures small without adding bloat like that.  A busy server can
have hundreds of thousands of dst cache entries active on it, and they
chew up enough memory as is.

But even 1 Million dst cache entries would be 16+4 MB additional for a 4 cpu 
box....is that too much?  The alloc_percpu reimplementation interleaves
objects on cache lines, unlike the existing implementation which pads per-cpu
objects to cache lines...

If you are referring to embedded routing devices,
would they use CONFIG_NUMA or CONFIG_SMP?? (bigrefs nicely fold back to
regular atomic_t s on UPs)

Thanks,
Kiran