Populating the per cpu areas on demand is a good thing especially for configurations with a large number of processors. If we really go to support 4k processor by default then we need to allocate the smallest amount of per cpu structures necessary. Maybe ACPI or so can tell us how many processors are possible and we only allocate those. But it would be best if the percpu structures are only allocated for actually active processors. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html