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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] robust per_cpu allocation for modules
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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