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Well, you are participating in this allocation bikeshedding too by implying that some doubt is deserved. It doesn't matter really, networking stack's performanc
by zzzcpan 10y ago
Well, you are participating in this allocation bikeshedding too by implying that some doubt is deserved. It doesn't matter really, networking stack's performance is dominated by other issues and the whole article is not even about performance, but about bugs. And there are definitely ways to prevent bugs or at least prevent them from causing problems.
- joosters 10y agoI'm not giving an opinion on what the right way to do kernel memory allocation is, I don't know enough on Linux internals to offer a useful opinion. Luckily, HN seems to be populated by many such experts who instantly know the right thing, and it turns out the answer is obvious to all of them and the existing code is dumb and stupid. We are blessed by their genius, apparently. Besides, my Turing machine has an infinite length of ticker tape, so memory allocation is not my concern :)