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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] slub: fix cpu hotplug offline/online path
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Hi Christoph,

On 10/9/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Could you check if a per cpu structure has already been allocated and then
> simply skip the call to init? Otherwise we end up with lots of per cpu
> structures for cpus that will never show up.

Does it matter? How?