From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:57:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:32180 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021385AbXIXS5I (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:57:08 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8OIv6P1028443; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:57:07 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8OIv62b028442; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:57:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:57:06 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Johannes Dickgreber Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64 Message-ID: <20070924185706.GA27812@linux-mips.org> References: <46F8079F.40108@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46F8079F.40108@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16646 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: 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