On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:35:11AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:10:53 +0900, Kenji Kaneshige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> >>>>> said:
> 
>   Kenji> Hi Cristoph,
>   >>> +config NR_RTE_CACHES
>   >>> +       int "Number of RTE cache entries"
>   >>> +       depends on IOSAPIC
>   >>> +       default "256"
>   >>> +       help
>   >>> +         If your system panic with the message "out of rte cache
>   >>> +         entries!(shortage: XX)", please set this to a larger value.
>   >> 
>   >> 
>   >> This screams for dynamic allocation of the underlying structures, no?
> 
>   Kenji> Some number (NR_RTE_CACHES) of iosapic_rte_info structures are
>   Kenji> statically allocated because this structure might be needed before
>   Kenji> kmalloc is initialized. The panic message mentioned above means we
>   Kenji> run out of these statically allocated structures.
> 
> The problem is naming, I think.  Those aren't "cache entries", they
> are statically preallocated entries.  How about changing the config
> option name to:

Even for early allocations what speaks against alloc_bootmem?

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