Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:55:55 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] another minor bit of cpumask cleanup |
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At some point in the past, rusty wrote: >> In 2.7, my aim is to switch the rest of them, move more things to >> per-cpu rather than [NR_CPUS] arrays, add the more efficient dynamic >> per-cpu allocation, and spread the per-cpu religion by fire and the >> sword.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:18:35PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > For folks doing really large cpu counts, like my employer, this might > become of interest sooner. On the other hand, we do really large memory > as well, so this might not be especially critical to us. > If NR_CPUS arrays start to annoy us sooner, I'll know where to consult.
This is primarily for the purpose of data placement, i.e. for node-local per-cpu elements. That said, to each his own.
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