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> >Couldn't you do this with the old setup as well, since you have access
> >to the callouts at boot time in both schemes?
> 
> Sure.  You can dynamically add callouts in both the old and new schemes,
> but the difference between Bruce's proposal and the current one is
> that it is more expensive/difficult to add callouts incrementally after
> the system is up (essentially on demand) since you have to reallocate
> whole arrays.

Fair enough.  Does the new scheme allow for dynamic allocation of
callouts?  I noticed that was on the TODO list for the original authors.


Nate