Re: [RFC] cpualloc: improvements to per-cpu allocation

Rusty Russell
2009-01-01T03:13:03Z

On Thursday 01 January 2009 11:33:00 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > I don't think it's a problem. You still can't use them directly (this
> > wording was not meant to imply that), but you can now hand their addresses
> > to per_cpu_ptr() etc. So zero-based x86-64 should Just Work.
>
> Ok so this is going to be merged for 2.6.29? Its a good cleanup and a step
> forward to our goals.

I'm on the fence, but you've convinced me. I'll put this in linux-next,
and if there's no damage, I'll push to Linus. The actual conversions I'll
send via the maintainers though.

These patches have been around for a while, and though they've been polished
a little more in the last week or so the changes were mainly cosmetic.

Thanks,
Rusty.