Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance
From: Christoph Lameter (clameter_at_engr.sgi.com)
Date: 09/22/05
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:55:05 -0700 (PDT) To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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.
Allright. However, there are a couple of uses of vmalloc_node that I can
see right now and they will likely increase in the future.
> Why should we spend days of work for a function that is yet to be used ?
I already did a vmalloc_node patch. So no need for spending days of work.
The patch can wait until it becomes performance critical.
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