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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:36:10 +0200

> The only (small) worry would be that this uses vmalloc space on 
> 32-bit platforms which is generally a scarce resource.

Yes, I considered this too.

But as you said there are things that mitigate how much of
a real issue this actually is.