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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:15:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase maximum kmalloc size to 256K
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
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Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>
>  The workqueue structure can grow larger than 128k under 2.6.14-rc2 (with 
>  all debugging features enabled on 64 bit platforms)

Would it be better to use alloc_percpu() in there?  Bearing in mind that
one day we'll probably have an alloc_percpu() which incurs one less
indirection and which allocates things node-affinely.