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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	jamesclv@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAX_MP_BUSSES increase
Date: 20 Dec 2001 18:03:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9jxesd3.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112192154190.19321-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201405550.6212-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:13:10 +0000 (UTC)"

mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar) writes:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > > Marcello and Linus, please apply.
> >
> > Can you give a rough description of what kinds of arrays this will
> > impact, just out of curiosity. Ie do we talk about "5kB more memory in
> > order to avoid problems", or are we talking about something
> > noticeable..
> >
> > 		Linus "too lazy to grep" Torvalds
> 
> the change is OK, it's about +3K RAM used, on SMP kernels.

hmm, I come more to 11K (most of it in mp_irqs) 
... which could be easily allocated with the bootmem allocator at parse time.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-20 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-20  4:28 [PATCH] MAX_MP_BUSSES increase James Cleverdon
2001-12-20  5:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 13:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-20 17:03     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-12-20 22:29       ` James Cleverdon
2001-12-20 22:56         ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112211113570.2196-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2001-12-21  9:14             ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-26 15:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-01-08  9:14   ` James Cleverdon
2002-01-08  9:41     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-01-18 21:21       ` James Cleverdon
     [not found] <200112210419.fBL4Jfq08533@butler1.beaverton.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112211131130.2269-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2001-12-21 11:57   ` William Lee Irwin III

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