Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance

From: Eric Dumazet (dada1_at_cosmosbay.com)
Date: 09/22/05

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    Date:	Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:50:49 +0200
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>

    Christoph Lameter a écrit :
    >
    > It should really be do_set_mempolicy instead to be cleaner. I got a patch
    > here that fixes the policy layer.
    >
    > But still I agree with Christoph that a real vmalloc_node is better. There
    > will be no fuzzing around with memory policies etc and its certainly
    > better performance wise.

    vmalloc_node() should be seldom used, at driver init, or when a new ip_tables
    is loaded. If it happens to be a performance problem, then we can optimize it.
    Why should we spend days of work for a function that is yet to be used ?

    Eric

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