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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf_events: add support for per-cpu
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On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:56 +0200, stephane eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:30 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> +       } times[NR_CPUS] ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> >
> > That's fail! NR_CPUS can be like 4k for distro configs.
> >
> How do you do this on struct that are dynamically allocated?
> The number of css is dynamic.

alloc_percpu()?