linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler.

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Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:25:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler.

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> > One cacheline sized 128bytes will support all 1024 cpus that IA64 allows. 
> > cacheline align the cpumask?
> 
> one or more, it is unnecessary for the common case.

The common case is an arch with much less cpus. The maxinum on i386
f.e. is 255 meaning 8 bytes. That fits in the cacheline that is already
used for the stack frame of the calling function. 

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