Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 00:57:48 EST


   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
   Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 23:55:49 -0700

   How about we leave kmalloc_per_cpu as-is (it uses kmalloc()), and
   only apply Rusty's new code to DEFINE_PER_CPU?
   
I propose to make it use kmalloc() all the time.

It simply doesn't make sense to use a pool given what you've
shown me. If we've decided that any limit whatsover is bad,
why impose any limit at all? Smells like bad design frankly.

Normal DEFINE_PER_CPU() need not a pool, therefore we don't need
a pool for anything.

Make kmalloc_per_cpu() merely a convenience macro, made up of existing
non-percpu primitives.
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