Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:00:41 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.17 1/2] percpu: implement percpu_pool |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:08:04PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > So, I have another case where percpu allocation needs to be performed > from an atomic context (also on the IO path), so I wrote up a simple > percpu alloc cache which is filled asynchronously and replaced > blk-throttle's custom implementation with it. > > I still think it's quite unlikely that we implement atomic allocation > directly in the percpu allocator; however, even if that happens > eventually, having percpu_pool instead of multiple custom mechanisms > scattered around the kernel should make it a lot easier to transition > to that. > > Thanks. > ------ 8< ------ > From eaaca4e64d3cce54d2b7ac5e4d5fb207290cc48f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:07:14 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: implement percpu_pool
Applied the first patch to percpu/for-3.17. Jens, how should I route the second patch?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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