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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] flow: better memory management
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:28:14 +0200
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:

> Allocate hash tables for every online cpus, not every possible ones.

There are some setups that boot most of the CPUs after boot.
On those this heuristic would be very wrong.

-Andi

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