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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-cpu support inside modules (minimal)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:39:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16077.6500.502815.97688@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030522100511.751E02C0F1@lists.samba.org>


  Rusty> OK, this does the *minimum* required to support
  Rusty> DEFINE_PER_CPU inside modules.  If we decide to change
  Rusty> kmalloc_percpu later, great, we can turf this out.

  Rusty> Basically, overallocates the amount of per-cpu data at boot
  Rusty> to at least PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM if CONFIG_MODULES=y
  Rusty> (arch-specific by default 16k: I have only 5700 bytes of
  Rusty> percpu data in my kernel here, so makes sense), and a special
  Rusty> allocator in module.c dishes it out.

  Rusty> Comments welcome!

Looks good to me.  For ia64, I guess I'll want to add a

	#define PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM	PERCPU_PAGE_SIZE

somewhere, but that doesn't sound so hard. ;-)

Thanks!

	--david

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 10:04 Rusty Russell
2003-05-22 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-22 23:51   ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-22 18:39 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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