linux-kernel - RE: ia64 allmodconfig on current mainline

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Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:11:04 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ia64 allmodconfig on current mainline

> of per_cpu__kmem_cache_cpu at 0x28a0.  A couple other low-hanging fruit
> here are per_cpu__shadow_flush_counts and per_cpu__mmu_gathers each of
> which takes approx 16k.

Ah.  That perhaps explains the recent jump in usage that has put
allmodconfig over the limit.  mmu_gathers is an int[NR_CPUS], and
NR_CPUS was just raised from 1024 to 4096

-Tony
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