On Friday 21 November 2008 03:17:24 Christoph Lameter wrote:
quoted text > > 7) Make percpu area grow dynamically.
> > - Yes, but a thorny tangle esp. with IA64. The cmdline hack is
> > probably sufficient meanwhile, and parallels can be drawn with vmalloc.
>
> Allright. Please check with David Miller who wants to allocate thousands
> of network interfaces which all need a MIB block.
Yes, I'm already battling Dave over percpu issues. I'll add this to the list
:)
Thanks for the warning,
Rusty.
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Re: [PATCH] Allocate module.ref array dynamically , Rusty Russell , (Thu Nov 20, 7:21 pm)