Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:16:19 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2]percpu_ida: fix a live lock |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > Do we really always need the pool for these classes of devices? > > > > Pulling tags from local caches to the pool just to (near to) dry it at > > the very next iteration does not seem beneficial. Not to mention caches > > vs pool locking complexities. > > And I meant here we do not scrap per cpu allocations.
I'm still a bit confused at what you're proposing. Part of the problem might be that I'm not exactly familar with the allocator and am just looking it from a consumer perspective.
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