linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] percpu: kill percpu

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:14:22 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org,
	cpw@....com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] percpu: kill percpu_alloc() and friends

On Thursday 12 March 2009 05:06:58 Tony Luck wrote:
>          wq->cpu_wq = alloc_percpu(struct cpu_workqueue_struct);
> 
> and the cpu_workqueue_struct is defined as ____cacheline_aligned

Yes, and it no longer needs to be now we have the real per-cpu allocator.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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