Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02T15:21:08Z

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 07:35 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Well I wonder if I should introduce it not as a replacement but as an
> alternative to allocpercpu? We can then gradually switch over. The
> existing API does not allow the specification of gfp_masks or alignements.

I've thought about suggesting that very thing. However, I think we need
to have a clear view of where we're going with that so that we don't end
up with two per cpu allocators because some users could not be converted
over or some such.