Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

Ingo Molnar
2006-07-29T04:09:49Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> > 2.6.18-rc2 works fine with same config.
> >
> > In this case the error is:
> >
> > No per-cpu room for modules
>
> yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing
> anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu
> memory in the kstat structure.

while the fundamental issue is the NR_IRQS problem which we'll fix
separately, Steve has a patchset to make percpu room dynamic:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/14/137

Ingo