linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc

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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:24:55 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
cc:	tony.luck@...el.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Boot with 2.6.32 and see if the per cpu allocator works. Check if there
> are any changes to memory consumption. Create a few thousand virtual
> ethernet devices and see if the system keels over.

Argh. You have to wait till 2.6.33-rc1 I believe to get the conversion of
the SNMP MIBs for the new per cpu allocator.

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