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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: kzalloc mod->ref
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:37:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h63khei9t.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24465.1231961348@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:29:08 -0500,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai said:
> 
> > We can use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS.
> > For a machine like 4096 CPUs, such an amount of memory is like a
> > peanut :)
> 
> It's not peanuts if you're dealing with a distro kernel that's essentially
> forced to compile with NR_CPUS=<some moby integer>, but booting on a single or
> dual core system with possibly not even 1G of memory.

My suggestion above is to use nr_cpu_ids, which is the actual number
of CPUs, not a constant like NR_CPUS.


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14  3:35 Kyle McMartin
2009-01-14  5:54 ` [PATCHv2] " Kyle McMartin
2009-01-14  9:09 ` [PATCH] " Takashi Iwai
2009-01-14 15:58   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-14 16:25     ` Takashi Iwai
2009-01-14 19:29       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-14 20:37         ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2009-01-14 20:53           ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-14 17:51     ` richard kennedy
2009-01-14 18:17       ` Kyle McMartin
     [not found]         ` <200901151303.20006.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-25 15:52           ` Richard Kennedy
     [not found]   ` <200901151521.47326.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-15  6:03     ` Kyle McMartin
     [not found]     ` <200901261751.21817.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-27  1:36       ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-27  1:58         ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-27 13:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-28 12:24           ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-14 10:15 ` richard kennedy

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