Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated

From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:50:36 -0800

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> There are several issues here :
> 
> alloc_percpu() current implementation is a a waste of ram. (because it uses 
> slab allocations that have a minimum size of 32 bytes)

Oh there was a solution for that :).  

http://lwn.net/Articles/119532/

I can quickly revive it if there is interest.

Thanks,
Kiran