From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:26:18 +0900 > sparc64 currently allocates a large page for each cpu and partially > remap them into vmalloc area much like what lpage first chunk > allocator did. As a 4M page is used for each cpu, this results in > very large unit size and also adds TLB pressure due to the double > mapping of pages in the first chunk. > > This patch converts sparc64 to use the embedding percpu first chunk > allocator which now knows how to handle NUMA configurations. This > simplifies the code a lot, doesn't incur any extra TLB pressure and > results in better utilization of address space. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
