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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:58:08 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: travis@sgi.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86: Convert cpu_llc_id to be a per cpu variable
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:21:05AM -0700, travis@sgi.com wrote:
> Note the addtional change of the cpu_llc_id type from u8
> to int for ARCH x86_64 to correspond with ARCH i386.

At least currently it cannot be more than 8 bit. So why
waste memory? It would be better to change i386

-Andi