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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] generic-smp: remove kmalloc usage

    * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

    > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 16:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > >
    > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Now that there is no strict need for kmalloc anymore, and nobody seems to
    > > > rely it for the queueing behaviour, remove it.
    > >
    > > Peter, I really hate this series.
    > >
    > > Why?
    > >
    > > In 1/4 you introduce that cfd RCU thing, and then in 2/4 you remove it
    > > again.
    >
    > Ah, no, I don't actually. I remove the kmalloc+call_rcu stuff in 2, not
    > the newly cfd mini rcu thing.
    >
    > > I realize that you seem to do that in order to do some incremental
    > > step-wise changes, but quite frankly, it just complicates the whole series
    > > and makes the patches much harder to read and follow.
    > >
    > > Why don't you just combine patches 1&2? That split-up seems to just
    > > confuse things. At least it confuses me. Why does it happen?
    >
    > The idea was to remove the necessity for kmalloc() in patch 1,
    > and then remove kmalloc() in patch 2.
    >
    > If you prefer I can fold them, no problem.
    >
    > But as you might have seen, Oleg has been punching holes in my
    > #1, so I guess I'm back to the drawing board no matter what
    > :-)

    I think the kmalloc() is clearly ugly, we should remove it, and
    if someone wants to add it we want to see _hard numbers_ that
    it's worth the ugliness. I.e. lets go with the two patches i
    posted, they are obvious and tested.

    We should not bend backwards trying to preserve that kmalloc()
    [and prove that it's safe and race-free] - i.e. the burden of
    proof is on the person insisting that it's needed, not on the
    person wanting to remove it.

    Ingo


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