Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>]

In message <alpine.LRH.2.00.0905180857060.16754@vixen.sonytel.be> you wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > > We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=3D8192, so make this the max.  102
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> > > > was an arbitrary decision anyway.
> > > 
> > > Is 8192 still arbitrary? Or does something break above that?
> > 
> > Yeah, the compile breaks after that with 4K pages.
> > 
> > In drivers/base/node.c we have:
> > 	/* 2008/04/07: buf currently PAGE_SIZE, need 9 chars per 32 bits. */
> > 	BUILD_BUG_ON((NR_CPUS/32 * 9) > (PAGE_SIZE-1));
> > which causes:
> > drivers/base/node.c: In function 'node_read_cpumap':
> > drivers/base/node.c:31: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
> > 
> > I can compile with 16384 CPUs with 64K pages, but it doesn't boot.  
> > 
> > sfr asked for size info for different builds, so I may as well repost
> > them here:
> > 
> >    text	   data		bss		dec		hex	filenam
e
> > 9237767	3225768		4409996		16873531	101783b	vmlinux
.1024
> > 9247355	4769472		7373708		21390535	14664c7	vmlinux
.2048
> > 9267239	7857032		13301132	30425403	1d0413b	vmlinux
.4096
> > 9302623	14035832	25155980	48494435	2e3f763	vmlinux
.8192
> > 9373283	26389360	48865676	84628319	50b535f	vmlinux
.16384
> 
> Will distros now start pushing NR_CPUS=8192-kernels on us?

Yeah, that's a concern.

Mikey