Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:55:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/05] robust per_cpu allocation for modules |
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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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