Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Thursday 13 November 2008 09:20:46 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The old api was based on an attempt to introduce a cpu mask. That mask was
> never used. See percpu_alloc_mask. The handling is not consistent with the
> nature of the percpu sections for other percpu data because allocation is
> only done for online processors. So we have semantic differences. The API
> is inconsistent and underwent rot.

Yes, but I was talking about the original percpu API: 
alloc_percpu/free_percpu/per_cpu_ptr.  That's the only bit that counts, as 
it's the only bit that's used.  Yes, the percpu_alloc should die.

Just convert *that API* to your new implementation, and drop all the 
conversion patches.  I said this back in June.

> The cpu alloc patchset gets rid of about half the hooks in the page
> allocator and slab allocator.

Sure, but we could convert those today to alloc_percpu etc.
Rusty.