On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:09:00PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> On kernels compiled with a big NR_CPUS netfilter rules would
> eat a lot of memory because all counters would be duplicated
> for all NR_CPUs CPUs. With NR_CPUS=256 this would add up
> to many MBs of memory.
Thanks, Andi. I think the NR_CPUS is actually a remnescant of 2.3.x
times when we didn't have num_possible_cpus() yet.
Also wrt. your vmalloc issues, I think there are floating around some
patches which replace our vmalloc use by __get_free_pages() anyway.
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- Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/
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on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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