[PATCH 1/3 v3] Raise the upper limit of NR_CPUS.
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Wed Apr 23 15:41:39 EST 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:06 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> As the pacas are statically initialised increasing NR_CPUS beyond 128,
> means that any additional pacas will be empty ... which is bad.
>
> This patch adds the required functionality to fill in any excess pacas
> at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
> ---
You add about 30 lines of code in this patch, which you remove in patch
3, is there a better way to do it?
Is there any harm dynamically initialising the statically initialised
pacas, I think that would allow you to basically skip the
NR_STATIC_PACAS business.
cheers
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