Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:20:03 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Jeffrey Sheldon <jeffshel@vmware.com>, Ole Agesen <agesen@vmware.com>,
       Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@odsl.org>,
       Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
       Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
       Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Gdt hotplug
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* Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:44, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > As suggested by Andi Kleen, don't allocate a GDT page if there is already
> > one present.  Needed for CPU hotplug.
> 
> Did I really suggest that? I think I suggested checking the return
> value of gfp. Also get_zeroed_page() is slightly cleaner than GFP_ZERO.

Yes, my recollection is you were talking about failed allocation.

thanks,
-chris
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