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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > At 10 kernel threads per cpu there may be a little bloat but it isn't > out of control. It is mostly that we are observing the kernel as > NR_CPUS approaches infinity. 4096 isn't infinity yet but it's easily > a 1000 fold bigger then most people are used to :) I disagree there is only a little bloat: the current mechanism in place does not scale as NR_CPUS increases, as this thread demonstrates. Beyond a certain point, on an 8-CPU box, it gets silly. You certainly don't need eight kblockd threads or eight ata threads. Jeff - 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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