Messages in this thread | | | From | "Chen, Kenneth W" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 00/05] robust per_cpu allocation for modules | Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:12:52 -0700 |
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Steven Rostedt wrote on Friday, April 14, 2006 2:19 PM > So the current solution has two flaws: > 1. not robust. If we someday add more modules that together take up > more than 14K, we need to manually update the PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM. > 2. waste of memory. We have 14K of memory wasted per CPU. Remember > a 64 processor machine would be wasting 896K of memory!
If someone who has the money to own a 64-process machine, 896K of memory is pocket change ;-)
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