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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711011515451.22508@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:16:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc: dada1@...mosbay.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu
access overhead
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:11:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > > The remaining issue with accessing per-cpu areas at multiple virtual
> > > addresses is D-cache aliasing.
> >
> > But that is not an issue for physicallly mapped caches.
>
> Right but I'd like to use this on sparc64 which has L1 D-cache
> aliasing on some chips :-)
Hmmm... re my message I just send. Then we have to return the memory with
the virtual address not with the physical address on sparc. May result in
zones with holes though.
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