From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760573AbXKNCAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:00:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757030AbXKNCAL (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:00:11 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:32798 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756986AbXKNCAJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:00:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:00:09 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071113.180009.56326652.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dada1@cosmosbay.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20071113.173718.112153027.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:50:24 -0800 (PST) > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > BTW, I'm going to stop testing your patches on sparc64 for > > a while until you start to make me feel like you understand > > that ignoring the BSS bloat issue is bad. > > Well this is just the fallback. How can I avoid this and still keep a > constant? Add a new segment to vmlinux.lds.S? I'm not so sure. The idea about doling out vmalloc space seemed the most promising.