Re: [PATCHSET] percpu: generalize first chunk allocators and improvelpage NUMA support

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:

> And it's imho unclear if that is all worth it just to avoid
> wasting some memory in the "256 possible CPUs" case (which
> I doubt is particularly realistic anyways, at least I don't
> know of any Hypervisor today that scales to 256 CPUs)

I basically agree. Its not worth it given the rare cases where this
matters. It will be a lot of code with callbacks in each subsystem.

One of the motivations of working on revising the percpu handling for
me was that we could get rid of these screwy callbacks that are rarely
tested and cause all sorts of other issues with locking and serialization.
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