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From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <m-kosaki@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, jeremy@goop.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	travis@sgi.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, xemul@openvz.org,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:23:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f11576a0809190823t233c6f57m48bd9724a85234a6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080919145929.158651064@quilx.com>

> +/*
> + * Allocate an object of a certain size
> + *
> + * Returns a special pointer that can be used with CPU_PTR to find the
> + * address of the object for a certain cpu.
> + */
> +void *cpu_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfpflags, unsigned long align)

cpu_alloc is good name?
I think some person suspect cpu-hotplug related function.

per_cpu_alloc() or cpu_mem_alloc() are wrong?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19 14:58 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V5: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59 ` [patch 1/4] Make the per cpu reserve configurable Christoph Lameter
2008-09-20  3:55   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-09-20 23:15     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59 ` [patch 2/4] percpu: Rename variables PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM -> PERCPU_AREA_SIZE Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 15:23   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2008-09-19 16:27   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-09-19 16:49     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 17:00       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 20:32   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:59 ` [patch 4/4] cpu alloc: Use cpu allocator instead of the builtin modules per cpu allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 15:28 ` [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V5: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-19 15:50   ` Christoph Lameter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-29 19:35 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V6: " Christoph Lameter
2008-09-29 19:35 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30  6:35   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30 11:38     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-30 11:48       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-30 12:12         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03  7:33   ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03  7:43     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-03  8:20       ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-03 14:15         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-03 12:48     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-05 21:10       ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-07 13:27         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-18 23:36 [patch 0/4] Cpu alloc V4: Replace percpu allocator in modules.c Christoph Lameter
2008-09-18 23:36 ` [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19  7:58   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-19 13:11     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:12       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-09-19 14:27         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-19 14:35           ` Pekka Enberg

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