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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:21:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADD48D1.1040701@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0910200651510.20992@twin.jikos.cz>

Hello,

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> How about this one? (untested)
> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Subject: sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu
> 
> Commit 34d76c41 introduced percpu array update_shares_data, size of which 
> being proportional to NR_CPUS. Unfortunately this blows up ia64 for large 
> NR_CPUS configuration, as ia64 allows only 64k for .percpu section.
> 
> Fix this by allocating this array dynamically and keep only pointer to it 
> percpu.

If the structure can be dynamically allocated at all, just using
percpu_alloc() to allocate the whole thing should solve it with the
correct numa locality.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-18 22:28 Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096 Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-20  2:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  4:57   ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  5:21     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-10-20  5:58       ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  6:12         ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20  6:14           ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20  6:27             ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20 14:18               ` Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-20 14:49                 ` Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-21  6:11                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-21 15:19                     ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-21 22:11                       ` Luck, Tony
2009-10-22 14:49                         ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-22 14:53                           ` Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-22 22:24                           ` Luck, Tony
2009-10-23  7:51                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-23 12:30                               ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-26 16:38                                 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-26 20:16                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-27 10:03                     ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-27 10:52       ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  6:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-20  6:26       ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  6:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-20  7:11           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20  7:39             ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20  7:12           ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20  7:17             ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-20  7:36               ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20 13:08           ` Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-20 13:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-20 13:57               ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-20 13:58                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-21  6:43                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-20  9:21       ` Peter Zijlstra

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