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Message-Id: <20071113.173009.247667472.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clameter@....com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dada1@...mosbay.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:40:19 -0800 (PST)

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > One thing you could do is simply use a vmalloc allocation in the
> > non-virtualized case.
> 
> Yuck. Meaning to add more crappy code. The bss limitations to 8M is a bit 
> strange though. Do other platforms have the same issues? 

sparc32 has the same limit.

I'm surprised this is your reaction instead of "oh damn, sorry
I bloated up the kernel image size by 8mb, I'll find a way to
fix that."
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