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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>, linux-next@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: cpu_alloc tree
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:36:19 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812172236.20226.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812160851080.18671@quilx.com>

On Wednesday 17 December 2008 01:21:26 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > The cpu_alloc tree has not been included in linux-next since Nov 21.  Have
> > your discussions with Rusty come to any conclusions?  Should I remove
> > this tree permanently or will it be updated?
> 
> I thought Rusty would be doing something. If not then I will bring things
> up to snuff.

Thanks for the prod, I was distracted by cpumasks and local_t, the latter
tangentially related.

The current patches work, but introduce new limits on eg. number of
network devices.  Those have to be diverted to a lesser percpu allocator
until we get dynamic percpu sizing.  I do not want to block this work on
that: you've shown how useful even small allocs can be in key places.

Expect another set of patches this week.

Thanks,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-16  6:05 linux-next: cpu_alloc tree Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-16 14:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-17 12:06   ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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