From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:26:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491A3EB9.8020203@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811121214.33150.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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.
I haven't looked closely at Christoph's latest but I believe the x86_64 version
is waiting for the zero-based percpu variables (and hence the combined pda/percpu
base.) It's on the queue just under 4k cpus.
Cheers,
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-11 20:01 [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11 22:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-11 22:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-11 22:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11 22:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-12 1:44 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 2:26 ` Mike Travis [this message]
2008-11-12 3:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 13:46 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-12 3:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 9:59 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 20:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 22:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-12 22:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-13 9:21 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-13 14:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-13 23:49 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-14 0:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-16 0:00 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-16 21:41 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-20 16:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-20 23:21 ` Rusty Russell
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