On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 19:33 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > So the cost on a 24-way SMP is irrelevant.. also, not every cpu gets to the 24 cpu domain, just 2 do. When you do for_each_cpu() think at least 4096, if you do for_each_node() think at least 256. Add to that the knowledge that doing 4096 remote memory accesses will cost multiple jiffies, then realize you're wanting to do that with preemption disabled. That's just a very big no go. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href