Messages in this thread |  | | From | Yidong Ren <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2] hv_netvsc: Add per-cpu ethtool stats for netvsc | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:07:40 +0000 |
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> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > You actually want to allocate memory local to this cpu, possibly in one chunk, > not spread all over the places. > > kvmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats)) should be > really better, since it would most of the time be satisfied by a single kmalloc()
Got it. I'm just trying to allocate memory for each cpu. It doesn't have to be __percpu variable.
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