From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756335AbZHNGKo (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:10:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755871AbZHNGKn (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:10:43 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58180 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbZHNGKm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:10:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4A84FF9E.3050306@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:09:34 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net, dhowells@redhat.com, npiggin@suse.de, JBeulich@novell.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, x86@kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET percpu#for-next] implement and use sparse embedding first chunk allocator References: <1248171979-29166-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1248171979-29166-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, all. > > This patchset teaches percpu allocator how to manage very sparse > units, vmalloc how to allocate congruent sparse vmap areas and combine > them to extend the embedding allocator to allow embedding of sparse > unit addresses. This basically implements Christoph's sparse > congruent allocator. Exported to linux-next. Thanks. -- tejun