From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rjw@sisk.pl,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, tglx@linuxtronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rudimentary tracing for Classic RCU
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 04:50:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081009115041.GC6628@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009065529.GC24560@one.firstfloor.org>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:55:29AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > In this case, why not define it as:
> > static char buf[20*NR_CPUS + 100];
>
> Actually you should near never use NR_CPUS now but always num_possible_cpus()
> (or even num_online_cpus()) Using NR_CPUS can lead to extreme waste
> of memory on kernels which are compiled for 4096 CPUs for example.
>
> And with num_possible_cpus() kmalloc is needed.
OK, new one on me! Thank you for the pointer!
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 14:12 scheduler hang on cpu re-hotplug with 2.6.27rc8 Andi Kleen
2008-10-06 23:28 ` RCU " Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 3:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-07 7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 15:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-07 15:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 16:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-07 21:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 21:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 1:08 ` [PATCH] rudimentary tracing for Classic RCU Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 6:20 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-09 6:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 7:05 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-09 7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-09 7:26 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-09 8:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-10 11:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 11:50 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2008-10-09 11:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 10:23 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-09 10:53 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 11:44 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-09 11:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 13:01 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-10 3:44 ` [PATCH] v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-13 23:09 ` [PATCH] v3 " Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-14 3:53 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-14 14:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-23 11:12 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-26 21:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-27 21:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-27 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-29 1:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-29 1:31 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-10-30 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 1:33 ` RCU hang on cpu re-hotplug with 2.6.27rc8 Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-09 4:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 7:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-09 8:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 11:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
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