Re: include/linux/pcounter.h

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 04:25:42 EST



* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:26:18 -0800
>
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:03:54 +0100 Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, per connection basis. Some workloads want to open/close more
> > > than 1000 sockets per second.
> >
> > ie: slowpath
>
> Definitely not slow path in the networking.
>
> Connection rates are definitely as, or more, important than packet
> rates for certain workloads.

but the main and fundamental question still remains unanswered (more
than 3 weeks after Andrew asked that question): why was this piece of
general infrastructure merged via net.git and not submitted to lkml
ever? The code touching -mm does _not_ count as "review".

Now that there was review of it and there is clearly controversy, the
code should be reverted/undone and resubmitted after all review
observations have been addressed. Just sitting around and ignoring
objections, hoping for the code to hit v2.6.25 is rather un-nice ...

Ingo
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