From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161438AbWG2EJt (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:09:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161439AbWG2EJt (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:09:49 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:43208 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161438AbWG2EJs (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:09:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:03:37 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Fulghum , ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work Message-ID: <20060729040337.GB29875@elte.hu> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <1154112276.3530.3.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> <20060728144854.44c4f557.akpm@osdl.org> <20060728233851.GA35643@muc.de> <1154132126.3349.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154135792.2557.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060728182450.8f5cbf76.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060728182450.8f5cbf76.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.9 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton wrote: > > 2.6.18-rc2 works fine with same config. > > > > In this case the error is: > > > > No per-cpu room for modules > > yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing > anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu > memory in the kstat structure. while the fundamental issue is the NR_IRQS problem which we'll fix separately, Steve has a patchset to make percpu room dynamic: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/14/137 Ingo