Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:09 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:40:19 -0800 (PST)
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > One thing you could do is simply use a vmalloc allocation in the > > non-virtualized case. > > Yuck. Meaning to add more crappy code. The bss limitations to 8M is a bit > strange though. Do other platforms have the same issues?
sparc32 has the same limit.
I'm surprised this is your reaction instead of "oh damn, sorry I bloated up the kernel image size by 8mb, I'll find a way to fix that." - 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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