Re: [PATCH] another minor bit of cpumask cleanup

[William Lee Irwin III]

At some point in the past, rusty wrote:
>> In 2.7, my aim is to switch the rest of them, move more things to
>> per-cpu rather than [NR_CPUS] arrays, add the more efficient dynamic
>> per-cpu allocation, and spread the per-cpu religion by fire and the
>> sword.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:18:35PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> For folks doing really large cpu counts, like my employer, this might
> become of interest sooner.  On the other hand, we do really large memory
> as well, so this might not be especially critical to us.
> If NR_CPUS arrays start to annoy us sooner, I'll know where to consult.

This is primarily for the purpose of data placement, i.e. for node-local
per-cpu elements. That said, to each his own.


-- wli
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