On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 13:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:11:41 +0000 "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Percpu frontend for allocating ids. With percpu allocation (that works), > > it's impossible to guarantee it will always be possible to allocate all > > nr_tags - typically, some will be stuck on a remote percpu freelist > > where the current job can't get to them. > > > > We do guarantee that it will always be possible to allocate at least > > (nr_tags / 2) tags - this is done by keeping track of which and how many > > cpus have tags on their percpu freelists. On allocation failure if > > enough cpus have tags that there could potentially be (nr_tags / 2) tags > > stuck on remote percpu freelists, we then pick a remote cpu at random to > > steal from. > > > > Note that there's no cpu hotplug notifier - we don't care, because > > steal_tags() will eventually get the down cpu's tags. We _could_ satisfy > > more allocations if we had a notifier - but we'll still meet our > > guarantees and it's absolutely not a correctness issue, so I don't think > > it's worth the extra code. > > Except for one silly trivial thing, all of my August 20 review comments > were ignored. You didn't even bother replying to the email. > Sorry, unfortunately this email didn't make it through Kent's email filter last week, and he responded to the thread yesterday. Kent, can you address Andrew's remaining comments please..? --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
