[Skiboot] Memory allocations / free HEAP space

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 7 10:21:01 AEST 2015


On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 10:00 +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:

> Quite likely worthwhile doing, there's a lot of overhead with current
> allocator for these. But I'm not sure it's going to gain us
> much... maybe another 64k?
> 
> Perhaps adding more heap really is what we have to do.. 2.3MB seems
> pretty low, and on a four socket system, I think we'll run out before
> boot.

Can we make the size of the heap a factor of the number of chips ?
(number of XSCOM nodes).

Cheers,
Ben.




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