From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261175AbTEQC6k (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 22:58:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261180AbTEQC6k (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 22:58:40 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:23730 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261175AbTEQC6j (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 22:58:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030516.201048.116377975.davem@redhat.com> To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: akpm@zip.com.au, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com, rth@twiddle.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unlimited per-cpu allocation From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030517030820.E17F72C018@lists.samba.org> References: <20030516.193847.15241922.davem@redhat.com> <20030517030820.E17F72C018@lists.samba.org> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rusty Russell Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 13:07:21 +1000 The question is not whether we need this allocator to implement percpu inside modules (we do), but whether it can also be used for kmalloc_percpu. I hadn't caught this distinction, and thus I misunderstood what was going on here. Thanks for clarifying.