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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	jeremy@goop.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, travis@sgi.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, xemul@openvz.org,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB63D5.8090202@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810060810.43511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:

> It shouldn't be a big win, since possible ~= online for most systems.  And 
> having all the per-cpu users register online and offline cpu callbacks is 
> error prone and a PITA.

That also has the nice consequence that moving the allocators (page allocator
/ slub) to the use of cpu_alloc will avoid the online and offline callbacks
(the main focus of these is getting rid of large pointer arrays there and
simplifying bootstrap etc).




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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	jeremy@goop.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, travis@sgi.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, xemul@openvz.org,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB63D5.8090202@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810060810.43511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:

> It shouldn't be a big win, since possible ~= online for most systems.  And 
> having all the per-cpu users register online and offline cpu callbacks is 
> error prone and a PITA.

That also has the nice consequence that moving the allocators (page allocator
/ slub) to the use of cpu_alloc will avoid the online and offline callbacks
(the main focus of these is getting rid of large pointer arrays there and
simplifying bootstrap etc).



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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 19:35 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V6: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` [patch 1/4] Make the per cpu reserve configurable Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` [patch 2/4] percpu: Rename variables PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM -> PERCPU_AREA_SIZE Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30  6:35   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30  6:35     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30 11:38     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30 11:38       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30 11:48       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30 11:48         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30 12:12         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30 12:12           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03  7:33   ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03  7:33     ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03  7:43     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-03  7:43       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-03  8:20       ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03  8:20         ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03 14:15         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03 14:15           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03 12:48     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03 12:48       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-05 21:10       ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-05 21:10         ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-07 13:27         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-10-07 13:27           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` [patch 4/4] cpu alloc: Use cpu allocator instead of the builtin modules per cpu allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30 22:28   ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-30 22:28     ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-30 22:27 ` [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V6: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c Rusty Russell
2008-09-30 22:27   ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-07 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-07 23:34   ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-08 15:10   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-08 15:10     ` Christoph Lameter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-19 14:58 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V5: " Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 15:23   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-19 15:23     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-19 16:27   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-09-19 16:27     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-09-19 16:49     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 16:49       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 17:00       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 17:00         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 20:32   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 20:32     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-18 23:36 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V4: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c Christoph Lameter
2008-09-18 23:36 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19  7:58   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-19 13:11     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:12       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-19 14:27         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:35           ` Pekka Enberg

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