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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > 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 ;-) > I was waiting for someone to make that comment :) But someone who has the money to own a 64-processor machine, is probably also a penny pincher, and wants to hold on to their pocket change ;-) -- Steve - 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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