Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Mon, 5 May 2003 23:42:48 -0700


Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
>
> - DEFINE_PER_CPU and kmalloc_percpu() work in core kernel, and use the 32k
> pool.

except sizeof(struct disk_stats)=44, so we run out of percpu space at 744
disks.

Can't think of anything very clever there, except to go and un-percpuify the
disk stats. I think that's best, really - disk requests only come in at 100
to 200 per second - atomic_t's or int-plus-per-disk-spinlock will be fine.

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