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Erich Focht wrote: >> I had to learn from Michael Hohnbaum that you've eliminated the per >> CPU time statistics in 2.5.50 (akpm changeset from Nov. 26). Reading >> the cset comments I understood that the motivation was to save >> 8*NR_CPUS bytes of memory in the task_struct. Maybe that was really an >> issue at the time when Bill suggested the patch (July), but in the >> mean time we got configurable NR_CPUS (October) and that small amount >> of additional memory really doesn't matter. Most people running SMP >> have 2 CPUs. On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:47:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > It's mainly the big ia32 boxes which a) have a lot of CPUs and > b) have a lot of memory and c) run a lot of tasks. They're > gasping for normal-zone memory. > I'm half-inclined to just revert the whole thing and put the stats > back, rather than adding yet another obscure config option. But > your patch is certainly very tidy... I'm (obviously) in favor of Erich's patch. =) Still gasping for ZONE_NORMAL, Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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