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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (slab
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +0200
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Hello,

On 08/25/2010 03:50 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Can we just get rid of the special UP case and just run the percpu
> subsystem even for UP?

Yeah, maybe.  Then we also can guarantee that percpu allocator always
honors alignment (which wq code currently requires and papers over
with similarly ugly workaround).  It would add a mostly redundant
allocator code tho.  I'll look into how easily it can be done.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun