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DateSat, 4 Nov 2006 19:40:13 +0100 (CET)
FromMikulas Patocka <>
SubjectRe: New filesystem for Linux
> The problem with a per_cpu biglock is that you may consume a lot of RAM for 
> big NR_CPUS. Count 32 KB per 'biglock' if NR_CPUS=1024

Does one Linux kernel run on system with 1024 cpus? I guess it must fry 
spinlocks... (or even lockup due to spinlock livelocks)

Mikulas
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