Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator

[Christoph Lameter]

Rusty Russell wrote:

> It shouldn't be a big win, since possible ~= online for most systems.  And 
> having all the per-cpu users register online and offline cpu callbacks is 
> error prone and a PITA.

That also has the nice consequence that moving the allocators (page allocator
/ slub) to the use of cpu_alloc will avoid the online and offline callbacks
(the main focus of these is getting rid of large pointer arrays there and
simplifying bootstrap etc).



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