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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] CONFIG_NR_CPUS for 2.4.21


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Robert Love wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:01, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> > Oops, credits for this should go to (and possible comments/reject come
> > from) Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
>
> It looks fine to me, although I do not think this is as critical an
> issue as it was for 2.5, because the per-processor bloat is not nearly
> as bad in 2.4 as 2.5. Nonetheless, this does not actually break
> anything.
>
> Except, I notice in some places (namely, 64-bit architectures), you set
> the default NR_CPUS value to 64. While this ought to work if
> sizeof(unsigned long)==8, it might not and is probably not a change we
> want in a stable series. The default should be 32 all around.

Magallon,

Please change the default to 32 everywhere and I'll reconsider it.
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