Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:58 +0900 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparc64: implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator |
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Hello, David.
David Miller wrote: > From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:56:32 +0900 > >> Implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback to >> the embedding allocator. The next patch will make the embedding >> allocator check distances between units to determine whether it fits >> within the vmalloc area so that this fallback can be used on such >> cases. >> >> sparc64 currently has relatively small vmalloc area which makes it >> impossible to create any dynamic chunks on certain configurations >> leading to percpu allocation failures. This and the next patch should >> allow those configurations to keep working until proper solution is >> found. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> >> --- >> David, can you please ack this after reviewing? > > Tejun I am testing out the following patch which will make these > patches of your's basically unnecessary:
Ah... great but unless you object, I think it would be better to push it out anyway just to make things a bit more robust and ease tracking and debugging when something goes wrong. The added code is small and ditched once boot is complete. What do you think?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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