From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D92F679E6 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:51:29 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] robust per_cpu allocation for modules From: Steven Rostedt To: Christoph Lameter In-Reply-To: References: <1145049535.1336.128.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4440855A.7040203@yahoo.com.au> <20060417220238.GD3945@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:51:23 -0400 Message-Id: <1145325083.17085.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, David Mosberger-Tang , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Martin Mares , spyro@f2s.com, Joe Taylor , Andi Kleen , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, benedict.gaster@superh.com, bjornw@axis.com, Ingo Molnar , Ravikiran G Thirumalai , Nick Piggin , grundler@parisc-linux.org, starvik@axis.com, Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , rth@twiddle.net, Chris Zankel , tony.luck@intel.com, LKML , ralf@linux-mips.org, Marc Gauthier , lethal@linux-sh.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:48 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > So now we can focus on a better solution. > > Could you have a look at Kiran's work? > > Maybe one result of your work could be that the existing indirection > for alloc_percpu could be avoided? Sure, I'll spend some time looking at what others have done and see what I can put together. I'm also very busy on other stuff at the moment, so this will be something I do more on the side. Don't think there's a rush here, but I stated in a previous post, I probably wont have something out for a month or two. -- Steve