Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> > i.e. we've got ~22K bloat per CPU - which is not bad, but because 
> > it's a static component, it hurts smaller boxes. For distributors to 
> > enable CONFIG_NR_CPU=1024 by default i guess that bloat has to drop 
> > below 1-2K per CPU :-/ [that would still mean 1-2MB total bloat but 
> > that's much more acceptable than 23MB]
> 
> Even 1-2MB overhead would be too much for distributors I think. 
> Ideally there must be near zero overhead for possible CPUs (and I see 
> no principle reason why this is not possible) Worst case a low few 
> hundred KBs, but even that would be much.

i think this patchset already gives a net win, by moving stuff from 
NR_CPUS arrays into per_cpu area. (Travis please confirm that this is 
indeed what the numbers show)

The (total-)size of the per-cpu area(s) grows linearly with the number 
of CPUs, so we'll have the expected near-zero overhead on 4-8-16-32 CPUs 
and the expected larger total overhead on 1024 CPUs.

	Ingo