On Friday 20 April 2007 20:23:13 Luck, Tony wrote: > > I heard there were some problems with ia64 have those been fixed too? > > IA64 has a 64KB page allocated for each cpu for the percpu data. Right > now we are using 28K-32K for the arch/ia64/configs/* variations.
Could that be enlarged without too much trouble? > > Anybody would have a problem with increasing per CPU data in a > > standard kernel by a few KB? > > How many is "a few" ... and much more importantly is your few KB > a fixed amount, or does it scale up with the number of network cards > (or anything else that there might be a lot of on a large system)? > A fixed extra 8-10K should be fine. #NIC * 1K would cause problems. There are scalable parts, but those would likely stay allocated. == -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
