Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 21:00:32 EST


From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:50:24 -0800 (PST)

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
>
> > BTW, I'm going to stop testing your patches on sparc64 for
> > a while until you start to make me feel like you understand
> > that ignoring the BSS bloat issue is bad.
>
> Well this is just the fallback. How can I avoid this and still keep a
> constant? Add a new segment to vmlinux.lds.S?

I'm not so sure.

The idea about doling out vmalloc space seemed the most promising.
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