From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:51:24 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811210951.24894.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811201038580.19948@quilx.com>
On Friday 21 November 2008 03:17:24 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 7) Make percpu area grow dynamically.
> > - Yes, but a thorny tangle esp. with IA64. The cmdline hack is
> > probably sufficient meanwhile, and parallels can be drawn with vmalloc.
>
> Allright. Please check with David Miller who wants to allocate thousands
> of network interfaces which all need a MIB block.
Yes, I'm already battling Dave over percpu issues. I'll add this to the list
:)
Thanks for the warning,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-11 20:01 [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11 22:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-11 22:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-11 22:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11 22:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-12 1:44 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 2:26 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-12 3:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 13:46 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-12 3:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 9:59 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 20:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 22:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 22:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-13 9:21 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-13 14:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-13 23:49 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-14 0:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-16 0:00 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-16 21:41 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-20 16:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-20 23:21 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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