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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add percpu smp cacheline align section
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:46:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070507174608.GB21638@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071029470.5447@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:30:16AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Call this area "cpu shared" or so?

Sure. cacheline_algined_in_smp was sort of indicating this. But this
name is short and also will clear the confusion.

But this still need to tap into per cpu infrastructure, so that the
new area can be allocated for each cpu during boot time..

thanks,
suresh

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <33E1C72C74DBE747B7B59C1740F7443701A2F0AB@orsmsx417.amr.corp.intel.com>
2007-05-05  0:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] Define percpu smp cacheline align interface Fenghua Yu
2007-05-07 22:58   ` Fenghua Yu
2007-05-15 23:42     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-05  0:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add percpu smp cacheline align section Fenghua Yu
2007-05-05 16:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-07 17:11     ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-05-07 17:30       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-07 17:46         ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2007-05-07 18:13           ` Yu, Fenghua
2007-05-15  0:12           ` [PATCH 2/2] Use the new percpu interface for shared data -- version 2 Fenghua Yu
     [not found]           ` <20070515001255.GA27978@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
2007-05-15  0:22             ` [PATCH 1/2] Define " Fenghua Yu
2007-05-05  0:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Call percpu smp cacheline algin interface Fenghua Yu
2007-05-07 22:59   ` Fenghua Yu
2007-05-09 20:33     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 22:16       ` Yu, Fenghua
2007-05-09 22:53         ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 22:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-09 23:06             ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-05-09 23:10             ` Yu, Fenghua
2007-05-09 23:36               ` Andrew Morton

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