From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758893AbYD0Kjy (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:39:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752647AbYD0Kjq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:39:46 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2828 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752248AbYD0Kjq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:39:46 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:39:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Mike Travis Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86: Modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus Message-ID: <20080427103933.GA5168@ucw.cz> References: <20080426001548.829332000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080426001549.014201000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080426001549.014201000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2008-04-25 17:15:49, Mike Travis wrote: > * Increase the limit of NR_CPUS to 4096 and introduce a boolean > called "MAXSMP" which when set (e.g. "allyesconfig"), will set > NR_CPUS = 4096 and NODES_SHIFT = 9 (512). Why is redundant option 'maxsmp' a good idea? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html