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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:26:01 -0800 From: Mike Travis <travis@....com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> CC: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 08:36:26 Eric Dumazet wrote: >> I believe Mike Travis has a better patch for this problem, partly using new >> percpu allocator. > > Actually, I think this in in Christoph's hands now. He's been wrangling with > getting us a real per-cpu allocator. > > There's something in linux-next, but I'm not sure of the status. Christoph, is > this anticipated to make the next merge window, or am I best off merging a > patch like Eric's for the moment? > > Thanks, > Rusty. I haven't looked closely at Christoph's latest but I believe the x86_64 version is waiting for the zero-based percpu variables (and hence the combined pda/percpu base.) It's on the queue just under 4k cpus. Cheers, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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