* Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64
@ 2007-09-24 18:53 Johannes Dickgreber
2007-09-24 18:57 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Johannes Dickgreber @ 2007-09-24 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mips
Hi
im running MIPS64 kernel on a SGI Octane with 1GByte.
The cache is that big, because _NSIG on Mips is set to 128.
On all other arch it is only set to 64.
Could MIPS use the lower Value ?
bye tanzy
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* Re: Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64
2007-09-24 18:53 Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64 Johannes Dickgreber
@ 2007-09-24 18:57 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 2007-09-24 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Dickgreber; +Cc: linux-mips
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:53:19PM +0200, Johannes Dickgreber wrote:
> im running MIPS64 kernel on a SGI Octane with 1GByte.
>
> The cache is that big, because _NSIG on Mips is set to 128.
> On all other arch it is only set to 64.
> Could MIPS use the lower Value ?
One of the historical sins. Not easy to fix because it would break binary
compatibility.
Ralf
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