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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	hawkes@sgi.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>,
	John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>, Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:26:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106172615.GE19769@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F055A7AFB@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:19:28AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Would it be impossibly hard to make the >64 cpus case (when the code
> switches from a single word to an array) be dependent on a boot-time
> variable?  If we could, then the defconfig could just say 128, and
> users of monster machines would just boot with "maxcpus=4096" to increase
> the size of the bitmask arrays.

Why can't we keep the default below 64?  Surely the 0.1% of the market
which needs more than 64 cpus can recompile their kernel ...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 17:19 [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024 Luck, Tony
2006-01-06 17:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 17:26 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 17:45 Luck, Tony
2006-01-06 17:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-06 18:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-06 18:07     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-06 18:19     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 18:37       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-06 18:59         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 20:17           ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 20:18             ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 20:42           ` Rohit Seth
2006-01-06 21:00         ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 18:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-05 21:39 hawkes
2006-01-05 22:33 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-06 17:06   ` John Hawkes
2006-01-06  8:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12  0:09 ` Paul Jackson
2006-01-12 19:04   ` Christoph Lameter

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