Re: [PATCH] Remove vfs_init_caches_early()

[Rusty Russell]

On Friday 18 January 2008 10:41:21 Rusty Russell wrote:
> vfs_init_caches_early() does nothing on IA-64 and x86-64 (unless you
> turn off CONFIG_NUMA): hashdist is set by default on these platforms.
>
> Maybe some obscure feature which requires VFS to be set up v. early
> (hence is broken in this configuration), or something arch-specific
> (which seems unlikely).  Most likely this is a relic.
>
> Unless someone has inside knowledge, the easiest way to find out is to
> rip it out and see if anyone screams.  Boots fine on my 32-bit x86 box
> here.

Ok, Chris Wright pointed me to the justification: it was because on 64G 
powerpc machines, MAX_ORDER of 11 was too small to allocate sufficient 
hashes.

See 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commitdiff;h=50c2cb5183e4f101f923212e39a58a66a530cf77

Since MAX_ORDER is now 13 on powerpc, I think we're good.

Thanks Cdub!
Rusty.
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