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

[Herbert Xu]

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.

In fact that was precisely the reason why per-cpu is used in
IPComp as otherwise we can just allocate normal memory.

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