Re: [PATCH 12/12]: sparc64: Use new dynamic per-cpu allocator.

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

The percpu part looks good to me.  Just one question below.

David Miller wrote:
>  void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
>  {
> -	unsigned long size, i, nr_possible_cpus = num_possible_cpus();
> -	char *ptr;
> +	size_t dyn_size, static_size = __per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start;
> +	static struct vm_struct vm;
> +	unsigned long delta, cpu;
> +	size_t pcpu_unit_size;
> +	size_t ptrs_size;
> +
> +	pcpur_size = PFN_ALIGN(static_size + PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE +
> +			       PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE);
> +	dyn_size = pcpur_size - static_size - PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE;

Isn't it better to use embedding allocator for !NUMA cases (one less
TLB entry usage for each CPU)?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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