Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting | Date | Sat, 17 May 2008 15:33:46 +1000 |
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On Friday 16 May 2008 23:41:16 Mike Travis wrote: > Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Rusty Russell a écrit : > >> Any chance I can ask you look at the issue of full dynamic per-cpu > >> allocation? > > > > You mean using alloc_percpu() ? Problem is that current implementation > > is expensive,
I mean rewriting alloc_percpu :)
> > We probably can change this to dynamic per-cpu as soon as Mike or > > Christopher finish their work on new dynamic per-cpu implementation ? > > Yes, the zero-based percpu variables followed by the cpu_alloc patch should > provide this and shrink the code quite well, including in some cases > removing locking requirements (because the resultant instructions will be > atomic.)
Ah, I hadn't realized that Mike was already working on this. Mike, have you published patches already?
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