Following patchset converts struct proto.memory_allocated to use batching per-cpu counters, struct proto.sockets_allocated to use per-cpu counters and changes the proto.inuse per-cpu variable to use alloc_percpu instead of the NR_CPUS x cacheline size padding.
We observed 5% improvement in apache bench requests per second with this patchset on a multi NIC 8 way IBM x460 box. (This was posted earlier http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113830220408812&w=2 ) Can this go into -mm please? Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
