Re: [PATCH 00/05] robust per_cpu allocation for modules

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter_at_sgi.com>
Date: 2006-04-18 02:55:02
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> If I'm following you correctly, this adds another dependent load
> to a per-CPU data access, and from memory that isn't node-affine.

I am also concerned about that. Kiran has a patch to avoid allocpercpu
having to go through one level of indirection that I guess would no 
longer work with this scheme.
 
> If so, I think people with SMP and NUMA kernels would care more
> about performance and scalability than the few k of memory this
> saves.

Right.

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