On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> On 10/9/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Our system come by default with the possibility of 1k cpus. However, a
> > small system may only have 8 cpus.
>
> Maybe I am reading the code wrong, but I don't why that matters as
> it's all statically allocated anyway (the per-cpu kmem_cache_cpu
> array). In any case, I certainly don't object to your proposal, just
> can't figure out why it matters.
The kmem_cache_cpu structures are allocated using DEFINE_PER_CPU.
The per cpu areas should be dynamically allocated as necessary. There is
work in progress by Mike Travis to do that. You are right in that (on
x86_64 at least) we define a static array for all processors.
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