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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Instead of allocating a fix sized array of NR_CPUS pointers for percpu_data,
> we can use nr_cpu_ids, which is generally < NR_CPUS.

Yes we can. Could you either use [] or [0] instead of the index there? 
Somehow the patch vanished when I replied to it.