Re: [PATCH] cpu hotplug fix

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 02:41:50 EST


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:36:42PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> start_cpu_timer was changed to __init a few hours before the cpu hotplug
> patches went in. With cpu hotplug it can be called at any time, so fix
> this.

So we're wasting memory due to the few machines supporting hot-plug cpus
in slab now? What about adding __cpuinit ala __devinit instead?

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