Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

[Ingo Molnar]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/04/2013 12:11 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> 8192 maybe?
> > 
> > Yeah, that makes more sense I guess.
> > 
> 
> However, I still have serious issues with crap like this because 
> randconfig is basically broken.  If nothing else we need to get that 
> feedback to the kconfig maintainers.

The problem with that is that there are no kconfig maintainers:

  KCONFIG
  ...
  S:      Odd Fixes

The kconfig code is still a hard to maintain, scarcely documented mess. It 
took us almost a decade to rescue the NTP code from a similar obfuscation 
trap and make it maintainable. It had the same author as the original 
Kconfig code - and the Kconfig code is 10 times larger than the NTP code.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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