Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpuaccess overhead

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:

> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Each IP compression tunnel instance does an alloc_percpu().
> 
> Actually all IPComp tunnels share one set of objects which are
> allocated per-cpu.  So only the first tunnel would do that.

Ahh so the need to be able to expand per cpu memory storage on demand 
is not as critical as we thought.

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