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

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 13:49:52 EST


Well there is an LWN article now that also claims that the cpu_alloc
patchset requires a large bss space. Sigh. See

http://lwn.net/Articles/257828/

Not true! 44 bytes is reasonable.

christoph@stapp:~/linux-2.6$ size mm/cpu_alloc.o
text data bss dec hex filename
5625 36 44 5705 1649 mm/cpu_alloc.o

Need to separate out the virtualization into a separate patch in V2 to
make clear that it is there.


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