From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753612AbYKLBov (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:44:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751475AbYKLBom (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:44:42 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:34963 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751876AbYKLBom (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:44:42 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:14:32 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27-7-generic; KDE/4.1.2; i686; ; ) Cc: Takashi Iwai , Andreas Gruenbacher , Jan Blunck , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Travis , Christoph Lameter References: <491A01E2.2010701@cosmosbay.com> In-Reply-To: <491A01E2.2010701@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811121214.33150.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 12 November 2008 08:36:26 Eric Dumazet wrote: > I believe Mike Travis has a better patch for this problem, partly using new > percpu allocator. Actually, I think this in in Christoph's hands now. He's been wrangling with getting us a real per-cpu allocator. There's something in linux-next, but I'm not sure of the status. Christoph, is this anticipated to make the next merge window, or am I best off merging a patch like Eric's for the moment? Thanks, Rusty.