snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%
SNMP mibs use two percpu arrays, one used in BH context, another in USER context. With increasing number of cpus in machines, and fact that ipv6 uses per network device ipstats_mib, this is consuming a lot of memory if many network devices are registered. commit be281e55 (ipv6: reduce per device ICMP mib sizes) shrinked percpu needs for ipv6, but we can reduce memory use a bit more. With recent percpu infrastructure (irqsafe_cpu_inc() ...), we no longer need this BH/USER separation since we can update counters in a single x86 instruction, regardless of the BH/USER context. Other arches than x86 might need to disable irq in their irqsafe_cpu_inc() implementation : If this happens to be a problem, we can make SNMP_ARRAY_SZ arch dependent, but a previous poll ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/174 ) to arch maintainers did not raise strong opposition. Only on 32bit arches, we need to disable BH for 64bit counters updates done from USER context (currently used for IP MIB) This also reduces vmlinux size : 1) x86_64 build $ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after text data bss dec hex filename 7853650 1293772 1896448 11043870 a8841e vmlinux.before 7850578 1293772 1896448 11040798 a8781e vmlinux.after 2) i386 build $ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.afterpatch text data bss dec hex filename 6039335 635076 3670016 10344427 9dd7eb vmlinux.before 6037342 635076 3670016 10342434 9dd022 vmlinux.afterpatch Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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