Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator

Christoph Lameter
2008-06-10T17:34:20Z

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Mike Travis wrote:

> I haven't seen any further discussion on these aspects... is there a consensus
> to remove the flags from CPU_ALLOC() and use a mutex?

We want to have extensable per cpu areas. This means you need an
allocation context. So we need to keep the flags. Mutex is not a bad idea.