Re: [PATCH] module: kzalloc mod->ref

Takashi Iwai
2009-01-14T20:37:30Z

At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:29:08 -0500,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai said:
>
> > We can use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS.
> > For a machine like 4096 CPUs, such an amount of memory is like a
> > peanut :)
>
> It's not peanuts if you're dealing with a distro kernel that's essentially
> forced to compile with NR_CPUS=<some moby integer>, but booting on a single or
> dual core system with possibly not even 1G of memory.

My suggestion above is to use nr_cpu_ids, which is the actual number
of CPUs, not a constant like NR_CPUS.

Takashi