From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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 11:07:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106180711.GG19769@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0601060958110.17665@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:04:56AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > You can use that argument to set the CPU limit low too -- since a kernel
> > with a CPU limit lower than the number of CPUs in the box will just ignore
> > the additional ones, people who want to get the additional performance
> > will tune limits that are set lower than they need ;-)
>
> The dicey thing in all of this is that the generic kernels will be used
> for the certification of applications. If the cpu limit is too low then
Why on earth would somebody do that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 17:45 [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024 Luck, Tony
2006-01-06 17:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-06 18:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-06 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 17:19 Luck, Tony
2006-01-06 17:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-06 17:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
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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