On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 05:08:04PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > It can be argued that we should always stick to the online masks for > allocation and iteration; however, that usually requires more > complexity and the only cases where this mattered have been when the > boot code got it wrong and failed to set the possible masks correctly, > which also seems to be the case here. I don't see any reason to > deviate here.
Hmm... but yeah, as you wrote, keeping the allocation local could be a reason but let's please not do this just to reduce memory consumption. If memory locality of the field affects performance noticeably, sure. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
