On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > If I'm following you correctly, this adds another dependent load > to a per-CPU data access, and from memory that isn't node-affine. I am also concerned about that. Kiran has a patch to avoid allocpercpu having to go through one level of indirection that I guess would no longer work with this scheme. > If so, I think people with SMP and NUMA kernels would care more > about performance and scalability than the few k of memory this > saves. Right.