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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ppc64 max_pfn issue
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> Since we cap it at 1<<12 I guess the platform affected might be ARM
> where you would otherwise get a smaller hash size.  That said, I
> wonder if a shift of 12 suffices for really large machines with many
> many processes.

Yeah it does seem low considering how easy it is to create 100,000
threads these days.

Anton