On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:50:04AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:

cpu alloc v2 had an extendable per cpu space. You have the patches. We 
could put this on top of this patchset if necessary. But then it not so 
nice and simple anymore. Maybe we can rstrict the use of cpu alloc 
instead to users with objects < cache_line_size() or so?

Restricting the use of cpu_alloc based on size of object is no good when
you're trying to allocate 45,000 objects.  Extending the per CPU space
is the only option.

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