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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:16:45 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fix PID hash sizing
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:44:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>I see PID hash sizing problems on an Opteron.
>>I thought this got fixed a while ago? Hm.
>>Export nr_kernel_pages, nr_all_pages. Use nr_kernel_pages when sizing
>>the PID hash. This fixes a sizing problem I'm seeing with the x86-64 kernel
>>on an Opteron.
>>
>
>Please describe the the pid hash sizing problem.
>
>
>

max_pfn isn't set up at that time yet, I'm guessing. I didn't look
into it further than that.