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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Allow NODES_SHIFT to be a config option on x86_64
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:26:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080321142648.GB31719@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080321133425.GA11095@sgi.com>


* Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:

> Allow the maximum number of nodes in an x86_64 system to be 
> configurable. This patch does NOT change the default value but allows 
> the value to be a config option.

i've applied your patch - but i'm wondering, shouldnt we auto-scale the 
default according to max number of CPUs? (with some sensible scaling 
that happens to meet your expected large-system needs as well ;-) All 
the current manual configuration of nodes shift is ugly.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-21 13:34 Jack Steiner
2008-03-21 14:26 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-21 14:54   ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-21 14:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 15:23       ` Jack Steiner

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