Re: page fault scalability patch V11 [0/7]: overview

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Nov 20 2004 - 02:09:08 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd expect that just shoving a pointer into mm_struct which points at a
> dynamically allocated array[NR_CPUS] of longs would suffice.

One might even be able to use percpu_counter.h, although that might end up
hurting many-cpu fork times, due to all that work in __alloc_percpu().
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