Re: [Bug #14467] Linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096

Christoph Lameter
2009-10-29T19:18:24Z

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:

> That would be nice but currently, we have no user which needs anything
> other than GFP_KERNEL although lack of users could have been caused by
> the lack of the functionality and the non-atomic irq disabled state is
> an exception case which is handled differently by might_sleep() too.
> So, I'm not sure whether adding GFP_* parameter would worth the
> effort. Also, adding that is a bit too late for 2.6.32 at this point.

As I have said repeately before: We need this for dynamic DMA slab
creation in SLUB. Since you got it already halfway in: Complete it and I
can get rid of the static percpu definitions that I had to add to be able
to use the new percpu allocator.