Re: [patch 1/4] Make the per cpu reserve configurable

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Sep 19 2008 - 03:12:18 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The per cpu reserve from which loadable modules allocate their percpu sections
> is currently fixed at 8000 bytes.
>
> Add a new kernel parameter
>
> percpu=<dynamically allocatable percpu bytes>
>
> The per cpu reserve area will be used in following patches by the
> per cpu allocator.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/ia64/include/asm/percpu.h | 1 +
> include/linux/percpu.h | 7 ++++++-
> init/main.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Wrong diffstat? There's no ia64 changes in the patch.
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