From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752760AbZIXWvF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752404AbZIXWvE (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:04 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49668 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264AbZIXWvD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090924.155122.170781221.davem@davemloft.net> To: tj@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, cl@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparc64: implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4ABB6C80.20109@kernel.org> References: <4ABB6C3A.8070109@kernel.org> <4ABB6C80.20109@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:56:32 +0900 > Implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback to > the embedding allocator. The next patch will make the embedding > allocator check distances between units to determine whether it fits > within the vmalloc area so that this fallback can be used on such > cases. > > sparc64 currently has relatively small vmalloc area which makes it > impossible to create any dynamic chunks on certain configurations > leading to percpu allocation failures. This and the next patch should > allow those configurations to keep working until proper solution is > found. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo > --- > David, can you please ack this after reviewing? This looks fine to me: Acked-by: David S. Miller