Re: [PATCH 10/10] mm: per device dirty threshold

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 11:59:12 EST


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 08:48 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > > This is enormously wrong for CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1024 on a 2-way.
> >
> > Right, I knew about that but, uhm.
> >
> > I wanted to make that num_online_cpus(), and install a hotplug notifier
> > to fold the percpu delta back into the total on cpu offline.
>
> Use nr_cpu_ids instead. Contains the maximum possible cpus on this
> hardware and allows to handle the hotplug case easily.

Ooh, thats handy... /me ditches the hotplug code again.
That is, unless its very common to have half empty boxens.. ?

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