linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (slab tree related)

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Message-ID: <4C762734.1030402@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (slab
 tree related)

Hello,

On 08/25/2010 03:50 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Can we just get rid of the special UP case and just run the percpu
> subsystem even for UP?

Yeah, maybe.  Then we also can guarantee that percpu allocator always
honors alignment (which wq code currently requires and papers over
with similarly ugly workaround).  It would add a mostly redundant
allocator code tho.  I'll look into how easily it can be done.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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