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SubjectRe: [PATCH] idr: Use this_cpu_ptr() for percpu_ida
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:19:06 -0700 "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 14:32 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> >
> > > One thing that was bugging me - I was never able to figure out for sure
> > > if smp_processor_id() returns a number in the range [0, nr_cpu_ids), at
> > > least I couldn't find where it was documented - could you tell me if
> > > that's true?
> >
> > I always assumed that it was in the range 0 ... nr_cpu_ids - 1 and that is
> > the assumption under which the kernel code was written. Things would break
> > horribly if smp_process_id would return nr_cpu_ids or higher.
> >
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Just a heads up that I've put Kent's standalone percpu-ida patch (with
> Christoph's recommend changes) into target-pending/for-next here:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=47bd524a5b3eb6429b058b8b562b45329ab2c9e7
>
> I've got a number of target patches that depend on this code for v3.12,
> and a delay on this particular piece would be painful to endure..
>
> Sooo, please yell loudly if there is an objection to percpu-ida merge as
> a completely standalone item, that does not effect any existing ida
> code.

Was hoping that Tejun had time. I'll take a look...


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