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

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Message-ID: <84144f020809190012u1b7dd266q3d2f689b4c2cfdf9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:12:03 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...r.kernel.org, jeremy@...p.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	travis@....com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Make the per cpu reserve configurable

Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@...ux-foundation.org> 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@...ux-foundation.org>
>
> ---
>  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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