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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:06:36PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:11:30PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:17 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Now, that said, I wanted (and wrote, way back when) a far simpler > > allocator which only worked for GFP_KERNEL and used the same > > __per_cpu_offset[] to fixup dynamic per-cpu ptrs as static ones. Maybe > > not as "complete" as this one, but maybe less offensive. > > The GFP_ATOMIC support stuff is needed only for dst entries. However > using per-cpu refcounters in such objects like dentries and dst entries > are problematic and that is why I hadn't tried changing those. > Some of the earlier versions of the allocator were simpler and I think > we need to roll this back and do some more analysis. No GFP_ATOMIC > support, no early use. I haven't got around to look at this The patches I have submitted this time does not have GFP_ATOMIC support. The early use enablement stuff are in seperate patches (patch 5 and 6). The patchset would work without these two patches too. Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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