linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC] cpu alloc cleanups and implementation improvement

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Message-Id: <200811172353.18356.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:17 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] cpu alloc cleanups and implementation improvement

Hi all,

  I've argued with Christoph that his implementation contains gratuitous 
obsolescence of perfectly-good APIs; hopefully providing real patches will 
give us a more useful debate.

  It's in easy stages.  There are three general cleanup patches, then four 
patches to expose the current module percpu allocator as a the general dynamic 
percpu allocator, then documentation, a new __get_cpu_ptr() primitive and 
finally a test patch.

I hope this adds some light,
Rusty.
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