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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> The bug has been there for a very long time and hasn't generated any bug
> reports so I think I'll just push it to mainline and leave it that.

Typically we do not run out of elements of the per cpu array.

Note that this code can be removed if we finally get a per cpu allocator.