Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:15:19 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 Nonlinear CPU support |
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At 22:03 12/06/02, Andreas Dilger wrote: >On Jun 12, 2002 21:41 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > But if doing something like that I might as well use the present > > approach and just allocate all buffers at once if they haven't been > > allocated yet and be done with it. Then no vfree()s are needed either and > > then it really does work. (-; > >But then you may be allocating a lot of memory for CPUs that don't >even exist, which is the whole point of this exercise. Better to do >it on-demand and loop for the very few times needed.
Sorry I ommitted a step from my trend of thought when writing the above. I was assuming that I would be using the cpu_possible() macro that is to be introduced so that only buffers for actually existing cpu sockets get allocated.
Best regards,
Anton
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