From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933907AbXKOWDa (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932173AbXKOWDI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:03:08 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55264 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765975AbXKOWDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:03:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:03:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071115.140305.137877909.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net, andi@firstfloor.org, akpm@linux-foundation.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: <20071113.215306.78239549.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: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:49:37 -0800 (PST) > Well there is an LWN article now that also claims that the cpu_alloc > patchset requires a large bss space. Sigh. See > > http://lwn.net/Articles/257828/ > > Not true! 44 bytes is reasonable. Well, the first version of the patch set, the one I tested, did require a lot of BSS space. And that's the one they are writing about. I don't see how you can even remotely claim that LWN's reporting is inaccurate here.