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

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