Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] Dynamic MP_BUSSES and IRQ_SOURCES for 2.4.21-pre1 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 12 Dec 2002 12:48:08 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:53, Greg KH wrote: > If the machine needs more busses or interrupts, they will be dynamically > allocated at boot time. If not, the existing MAX_MP_BUSSES and > MAX_IRW_SOURCES value will be used. Once nice side effect of this patch > is when running a SMP kernel on a UP machine without a MP table, less > kernel memory is used than without the patch. > > This patch was originally written by James Cleverdon, and has been in > the -ac tree for quite some time. I also think Red Hat includes it in > their main kernel, but am not sure.
Its certainly been in some of our trees.
Marcelo this patch hasn't caused any problem reports in -ac for a long time. I'm all for including it.
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