From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix 256 node machines by increasing NODES_SHIFT value
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:20:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106852087001745@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106797223026432@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:01:53PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:56:19 -0800, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said:
>
> Jesse> We need 8 bits for the NODE_SHIFT otherwise 256 node systems
> Jesse> fail in weird ways.
>
> I think I'm going to push back on this one since Linus wants to limit
> patches to stuff that affects (relatively) large number of folks, and
> I don't think there are more than a handful of >256 node systems out
> there (in fact, I've heard only of one). Otherwise, I'm OK with the
> patch, so we should include it in 2.6.1. Please retransmit after
> 2.6.1 is out.
>
> Ditto for Jack's patch.
>
> OK?
Yep, no problem. Just posting it for comments more than anything else.
Jesse
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2003-11-04 18:56 [PATCH] fix 256 node machines by increasing NODES_SHIFT value Jesse Barnes
2003-11-11 2:01 ` David Mosberger
2003-11-11 3:20 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
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