Re: [PATCH] [SMP] reduce size of percpudata, and make sure per_cpu(object, not_possible_cpu) cause an invalid memory reference

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:46, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> As some architectures (x86_64) are now allocating cpudata only on possible
> cpus, we (kernel developers on x86 machines) should make sure that x86 does
> a similar thing to find bugs. This is important that this patch has some
> exposure in -mm for some time, some places must now use :

The for_each_cpu changes should be actually merged ASAP because x86-64 
needs them (or maybe i should back out that change until the kernel is ready?)
But it really saves a lot of memory - several MB on a distro kernel which is 
compiled with NR_CPUS==128.

-Andi
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