Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:51:51 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096 |
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* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > Tony, is the change that will eventually have to be made to ia64 > > pagefault handler too intrusive for -rc6, and should we rather go > > with my workaround instead, and try to find something proper for > > 2.6.33? > > Using __alloc_percpu() rather than static declaration looks to be the > right fix here. Not a "workaround".
It is a workaround for the IA64 build failure.
It's also an improvement of the scheduler code (we generally try to eliminate NR_CPUs scaling of allocations) - but code improvements need to happen much sooner than -rc6/-rc7.
Ingo
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