On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > > Tony, is the change that will eventually have to be made to ia64 > > > > pagefault handler too intrusive for -rc6, and should we rather go > > > > with my workaround instead, and try to find something proper for > > > > 2.6.33? > > > > > > Using __alloc_percpu() rather than static declaration looks to be the > > > right fix here. Not a "workaround". > > > > It is a workaround for the IA64 build failure. > > > > It's also an improvement of the scheduler code (we generally try to > > eliminate NR_CPUs scaling of allocations) - but code improvements need > > to happen much sooner than -rc6/-rc7. > > Unfortunately refactoring the ia4 pagefault handler would require some > refactoring in order to eliminate the 64k limitation, as far as I know, > which doesn't seem to be feasible for this timeframe either. > > So if I personally have to chose from these two options, I'd prefer my > patch for 2.6.32 and it'd be helpful if ia64 people could look into doing > something with the 64k limit for 2.6.33. > > Acceptable for everyone? Ingo/Peter, will you merge this asap please, so > that we don't miss 2.6.32 with it? This stil seems unfixed in the relevant trees I have checked ... anyone has strong objections to this, which cause the patch to be delayed? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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