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SubjectRe: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096

* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> > Tony, is the change that will eventually have to be made to ia64
> > pagefault handler too intrusive for -rc6, and should we rather go
> > with my workaround instead, and try to find something proper for
> > 2.6.33?
>
> Using __alloc_percpu() rather than static declaration looks to be the
> right fix here. Not a "workaround".

It is a workaround for the IA64 build failure.

It's also an improvement of the scheduler code (we generally try to
eliminate NR_CPUs scaling of allocations) - but code improvements need
to happen much sooner than -rc6/-rc7.

Ingo


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