Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:19:49 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: arch_probe_nr_irqs |
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* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote: > > Impact: save RAM with large NR_CPUS, get smaller nr_irqs > > > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> > > Built and tested on an 8-core intel system. Great reduction > in NR_IRQS: > > [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:33024 nr_irqs:320 > > Thanks Yinghai! > > Ingo - shall I push this one as well? (If not, then you > can add my: > > Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
yes, please pick it up and i can pull it from you. Please also add a longer changelog about the precise effects and perhaps some estimations about what the before and after situation is, and perhaps also some bits about how it affects normal Linux users as well.
Ingo
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