Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:37:51 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> I figured that since the allocator is going to be there anyway, it
>  made sense to express kmalloc_percpu() in those terms.  If you think
>  the price is too high, I can respect that.

I suggest that we use your new mechanism to fix DEFINE_PERCPU() in modules,
and leave kmalloc_percpu() as it is for now.
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