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DateThu, 01 Nov 2007 08:24:50 +0100
FromEric Dumazet <>
SubjectRe: [patch 1/7] allocpercpu: Make it a true per cpu allocator by allocating from a per cpu array
Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> +> +enum unit_type { FREE, END, USED };> +> +static u8 cpu_alloc_map[UNITS_PER_CPU] = { 1, };

You mean END here instead of 1 :)


> +/*> + * Allocate an object of a certain size> + *> + * Returns a per cpu pointer that must not be directly used.
> + */> +static void *cpu_alloc(unsigned long size)> +{

We might need to give an alignment constraint here. Some per_cpu users would 
like to get a 64 bytes zone, siting in one cache line and not two :)


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