Re: [Bug #14467] Linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096

Tejun Heo
2009-10-29T15:34:09Z

Hello,

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> As I have said repeately before: We need this for dynamic DMA slab
> creation in SLUB. Since you got it already halfway in: Complete it and I
> can get rid of the static percpu definitions that I had to add to be able
> to use the new percpu allocator.

I completely forgot about that. The biggest cause of my reluctance is
that it's gonna make locking more complex as I really like the current
dumb locking in alloc path. Oh well, I'm putting it on my todo list.

Thanks.

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tejun