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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase the upper bound on NR_CPUS.
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:44:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196311453.7875.9.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071129042314.GN24243@bakeyournoodle.com>

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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:23 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:17:16PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:16 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > why not?
> > 
> > How big is say a pseries_defconfig with NR_CPUS = 1024 ?
> 
> This is a ppc64_defconfig, with a couple of extra patches, and
> NR_CPUS=1024
> 
> tony@Sprygo:~/scratch/working$ size ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.{pmac,pseries,iseries} ../working_out/vmlinux
>    text    data     bss      dec     hex filename
> 3697092    5356   48232  3750680  393b18 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac
> 3697092    5356   48232  3750680  393b18 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries
> 8101340 4994176  815544 13911060  d44414 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.iseries
> 8101340 4994176  815544 13911060  d44414 ../working_out/vmlinux

OK, not too bad for the zImage, but the vmlinux has grown a bit, we
obviously have lots of foo[NR_CPUS].

NR_CPUS = 32 vs 1024

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
7889287 1786256  529248 10204791         9bb677 vmlinux
7901531 4946864  814432 13662827         d07a6b vmlinux

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29  4:16 [PATCH] Increase the upper bound on NR_CPUS Tony Breeds
2007-11-29  4:17 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-11-29  4:23   ` Tony Breeds
2007-11-29  4:44     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2007-11-29  6:23 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-29 10:33 ` Arnd Bergmann

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