Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

David Miller
2007-11-14T01:30:25Z

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:40:19 -0800 (PST)

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
>
> > One thing you could do is simply use a vmalloc allocation in the
> > non-virtualized case.
>
> Yuck. Meaning to add more crappy code. The bss limitations to 8M is a bit
> strange though. Do other platforms have the same issues?

sparc32 has the same limit.

I'm surprised this is your reaction instead of "oh damn, sorry
I bloated up the kernel image size by 8mb, I'll find a way to
fix that."