From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86: Modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:13:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481605CD.7030807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428135459.GA3704@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
>> * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 2008-04-25 17:15:49, Mike Travis wrote:
>>>> * Increase the limit of NR_CPUS to 4096 and introduce a boolean
>>>> called "MAXSMP" which when set (e.g. "allyesconfig"), will set
>>>> NR_CPUS = 4096 and NODES_SHIFT = 9 (512).
>>> Why is redundant option 'maxsmp' a good idea?
>> because this way randconfig can trigger it and can configure all the
>> otherwise randconfig-invisible [or just plain unlikely] numerics and
>> options up to their max.
>>
>> I found 2-3 "large box" bugs via that way already.
>
> Should we improve randconfig to select numeric values when range is
> given, too?
> Pavel
Would not be a bad idea; preferrably with a logarithmic distribution.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 0:15 [PATCH 00/11] x86: cleanup early per cpu variables/accesses v5-folded Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86: Modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus Mike Travis
2008-04-27 10:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-28 13:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-28 15:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86: cleanup early per cpu variables/accesses v4 Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86: restore pda nodenumber field Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86: remove the static 256k node_to_cpumask_map Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 05/11] sched: replace MAX_NUMNODES with nr_node_ids in kernel/sched.c Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 06/11] cpu: change some globals to statics in drivers/base/cpu.c v2 Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86: remove static boot_cpu_pda array Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86: Add performance variants of cpumask operators Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86: Use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86: Use performance variant next_cpu_nr Mike Travis
2008-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 11/11] net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c Mike Travis
2008-04-28 13:42 ` [PATCH 00/11] x86: cleanup early per cpu variables/accesses v5-folded Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 15:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 16:27 ` Mike Travis
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