Question: sighand_cache is bigger than a page ( it has 4120 byte) on MIPS64

Linux MIPS Architecture development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed

* 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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
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

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

* 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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
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

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2007-09-24 18:57 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
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

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox