From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752677AbYKLCYk (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:24:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751522AbYKLCYc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:24:32 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.179.29]:59193 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751510AbYKLCYb (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:24:31 -0500 Message-ID: <491A3EB9.8020203@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:26:01 -0800 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Eric Dumazet , Takashi Iwai , Andreas Gruenbacher , Jan Blunck , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically References: <491A01E2.2010701@cosmosbay.com> <200811121214.33150.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200811121214.33150.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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