Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755122AbZJ2PeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:34:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754897AbZJ2PeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:34:09 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45420 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754850AbZJ2PeI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:34:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4AE9B5E1.7030509@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:33:53 +0100 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Jiri Kosina , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Mahoney , "Luck, Tony" , Peter Zijlstra , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [Bug #14467] Linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096 References: <6dRYo8ss7vL.A.nnF.Cre5KB@chimera> <4AE9AB23.8010207@kernel.org> <4AE9B090.9090107@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 21 Hello, Christoph Lameter wrote: > As I have said repeately before: We need this for dynamic DMA slab > creation in SLUB. Since you got it already halfway in: Complete it and I > can get rid of the static percpu definitions that I had to add to be able > to use the new percpu allocator. I completely forgot about that. The biggest cause of my reluctance is that it's gonna make locking more complex as I really like the current dumb locking in alloc path. Oh well, I'm putting it on my todo list. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/