From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:58:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517023420.7FCE42C04F@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 2003 22:42:32 MST." <20030515.224232.63031915.davem@redhat.com>
In message <20030515.224232.63031915.davem@redhat.com> you write:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:30:36 +1000
>
> D: This patch allows an unlimited number of per-cpu allocations.
>
> Except, of course, on IA64. Maybe I missed the end of some thread,
> but I thought we had all agreed that this kind of limitation was
> a showstopper.
Not breaking IA64 is nice, but it's not an inherent "IA64 can't do it"
thing.
IA64 could just use the generic mechanism, like everyone else. But
they do the tricky 64k mapping thing. As I pointed out, maybe their
decision would have to be rethought if that proves inadaquate.
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-16 5:30 [PATCH] Unlimited per-cpu allocation Rusty Russell
2003-05-16 5:42 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-17 1:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-05-17 2:38 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-17 3:07 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-17 3:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-17 11:36 ` Rusty Russell
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