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    SubjectRe: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator
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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."
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