Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparc64: implement page mapping percpu first chunkallocator

[David Miller]

From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:56:32 +0900

> Implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback to
> the embedding allocator.  The next patch will make the embedding
> allocator check distances between units to determine whether it fits
> within the vmalloc area so that this fallback can be used on such
> cases.
> 
> sparc64 currently has relatively small vmalloc area which makes it
> impossible to create any dynamic chunks on certain configurations
> leading to percpu allocation failures.  This and the next patch should
> allow those configurations to keep working until proper solution is
> found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> David, can you please ack this after reviewing?

This looks fine to me:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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