Re: [PATCH] idr: Use this_cpu_ptr() for percpu_ida

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:

> The lock is needed so that one cpu can steal tags from another cpu's cache.
> See (the needlessly inlined!) steal_tags().

Stealing tags could also be done via IPIs or some other things.

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