Re: [RFC] cpualloc: improvements to per-cpu allocation

On Thursday 01 January 2009 11:33:00 Christoph Lameter wrote:

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:

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I don't think it's a problem.  You still can't use them directly (this
wording was not meant to imply that), but you can now hand their addresses
to per_cpu_ptr() etc.  So zero-based x86-64 should Just Work.

Ok so this is going to be merged for 2.6.29? Its a good cleanup and a step
forward to our goals.

I'm on the fence, but you've convinced me.  I'll put this in linux-next,
and if there's no damage, I'll push to Linus.  The actual conversions I'll
send via the maintainers though.

These patches have been around for a while, and though they've been polished
a little more in the last week or so the changes were mainly cosmetic.

Thanks,
Rusty.