> On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 01:15, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > After some discussion, this may be a more sane (untested) per-cpu area
> > patch. It dynamically allocated the sections (and discards the
> > original), which would allow (future) NUMA people to make sure their
> > CPU area is allocated near them.
> >
> > Comments welcome,
>
> Would the next step be to find the various per-CPU data in the kernel
> and convert it to your new form? I.e., is this a general purpose
> interface for per-CPU data structures, or am I missing something
Yep. One step at a time...
Cheers,
Rusty.
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