Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.17 1/2] percpu: implement percpu_pool

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:08:04PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> So, I have another case where percpu allocation needs to be performed
> from an atomic context (also on the IO path), so I wrote up a simple
> percpu alloc cache which is filled asynchronously and replaced
> blk-throttle's custom implementation with it.
> 
> I still think it's quite unlikely that we implement atomic allocation
> directly in the percpu allocator; however, even if that happens
> eventually, having percpu_pool instead of multiple custom mechanisms
> scattered around the kernel should make it a lot easier to transition
> to that.
> 
> Thanks.
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> From eaaca4e64d3cce54d2b7ac5e4d5fb207290cc48f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:07:14 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: implement percpu_pool

Applied the first patch to percpu/for-3.17.  Jens, how should I route
the second patch?

Thanks.

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tejun