[Cbe-oss-dev] Current upstream crash without CONFIG_NUMA
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Mon Oct 9 21:12:51 EST 2006
On Monday 09 October 2006 12:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > It's more than that. The problem is basically the same for any resources
> > that are per CBE, e.g. IIC, IOMMU or the pervasive unit, so the solution
> > should also use the same mechanism.
>
> I'm tempted to define a MAX_CBE which might itself be defined based on
> NUMA stuff ... might make things easier.
Yeah, how about min(MAX_NUMNODES,2)? We know that there is no hardware
that has more than two CBEs, and this way we can be more efficient on
kernels built with MAX_NUMNODES=<large>.
Arnd <><
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