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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: increase CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT max to 10
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:23:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100311132354.GA26600@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003101537330.30724@chino.kir.corp.google.com>


* David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> Some larger systems require more than 512 nodes, so increase the maximum 
> CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT to 10 for a new max of 1024 nodes.
> 
> This was tested with numa=fake=64M on systems with more than 64GB of RAM. A 
> total of 1022 nodes were initialized.
> 
> Successfully builds with no additional warnings on x86_64 allyesconfig.

Not so here:

drivers/base/node.c:169: error: negative width in bit-field ?<anonymous>?

>  Greg KH has queued up numa-fix-BUILD_BUG_ON-for-node_read_distance.patch
>  for 2.6.35 to fix the build error when CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is set to 10.
>  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/10/390

erm. Alas I cannot merge it in the x86 tree without that fix being upstream. 
Why for v2.6.35 - shouldnt that be v2.6.34?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 23:42 [patch] x86: increase CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT max to 10 David Rientjes
2010-03-11 13:23 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-03-11 14:06   ` Greg KH
2010-03-11 14:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-11 17:58       ` Greg KH
2010-03-11 18:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 22:39 ` [patch v2] " David Rientjes
2010-04-02 19:06   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Increase " tip-bot for David Rientjes

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