Hello, Vivek. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:27:17PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Ok, that's good to know. If per cpu allocator can support this use case, > it will be good for 3.3 onwards. This seems to be right way to go to fix > the problem. Ummm... if we're gonna make percpu usable w/ GFP_NOIO, the right interim solution would be making a simplistic mempool so that later when percpu can do it, it can be swapped easily. I really can't see much benefit of adding refcnting on top of everything just for this. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html