Hi Vishal, I'm mostly worried about handling scalability to large CPU counts properly. If you think this is the best way to handle it that fine, but please document the decisions on the changelog in a similar form to what you did below. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html