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

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2005-09-13 23:28:10
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From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <redacted>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:17:17 -0700
But even 1 Million dst cache entries would be 16+4 MB additional for
a 4 cpu box....is that too much?
Absolutely.

Per-cpu counters are great for things like single instance
statistics et al.  But once you start doing them per-object
that's out of control bloat as far as I'm concerned.
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