Re: [PATCHSET] percpu: generalize first chunk allocators andimprove lpage NUMA support

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:20:53 -0400 (EDT)
Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I assume from the tremendous number of for_each_possible_cpu()s that
> > CPU hotplug awareness won't be happening.
> 
> Per cpu areas are allocated for all possible processors. No need to handle
> offlining and onlining them.

Well yes.  My point is that this is a bug-not-a-feature ;)
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