Re: [PATCH 2/4] ia64: allocate percpu area for cpu0 like percpuareas for other cpus

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 13:21:02 EST


On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:

> any special handling. What problems are you seeing?

per cpu variable access on IA64 does not use the percpu_offset for the
calculation of the current per cpu data area. Its using a virtual mapping.

How does the new percpu allocator support this? Does it use different
methods of access for static and dynamic percpu access?


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