From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761356AbZBMXCz (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:02:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755510AbZBMXCr (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:02:47 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44566 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755004AbZBMXCr (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:02:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4995FB44.5070702@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:59:16 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Tejun Heo , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , cpw@sgi.com Subject: Re: #tj-percpu has been rebased References: <49833350.1020809@kernel.org> <49939964.4070607@kernel.org> <49939B08.1050801@kernel.org> <200902140728.55954.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200902140728.55954.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 Thursday 12 February 2009 14:14:08 Tejun Heo wrote: >> Oops, those are the same ones. I'll give a shot at cooking up >> something which can be dynamically sized before going forward with >> this one. > > That's why I handed it to you! :) > > Just remember we waited over 5 years for this to happen: the point of these > is that Christoph showed it's still useful. > > (And I really like the idea of allocing congruent areas rather than remapping > if someone can show that it's semi-reliable. Good luck!) Well, it's easy to do in virtual space. Trying to do it in physical space seems nearly impossible. -hpa