From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48EB63D5.8090202@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:49 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator References: <20080929193500.470295078@quilx.com> <20081003003342.4d592c1f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <48E614A0.60209@linux-foundation.org> <200810060810.43511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200810060810.43511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rusty Russell Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jeremy@goop.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, travis@sgi.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, xemul@openvz.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi List-ID: Rusty Russell wrote: > It shouldn't be a big win, since possible ~= online for most systems. And > having all the per-cpu users register online and offline cpu callbacks is > error prone and a PITA. That also has the nice consequence that moving the allocators (page allocator / slub) to the use of cpu_alloc will avoid the online and offline callbacks (the main focus of these is getting rid of large pointer arrays there and simplifying bootstrap etc). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org