Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 23:16:06 EST


   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
   Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 22:02:50 -0700

   "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew's example with some module doing kmalloc_percpu() inside
> of fops->open() is just rediculious.
   
   crap. Modules deal with per-device and per-mount objects. If a module
   cannot use kmalloc_per_cpu on behalf of the primary object which it manages
   then the facility is simply not useful to modules.

Ok then.

Please address the ia64 concerns then :-) It probably means we
have to stay with the dereferencing stuff... at which point you
might as well use normal kmalloc() and smp_processor_id() indexing
inside of modules.
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