linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: kzalloc mod->ref

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Message-ID: <24465.1231961348@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:29:08 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: kzalloc mod->ref

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai said:

> We can use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS.
> For a machine like 4096 CPUs, such an amount of memory is like a
> peanut :)

It's not peanuts if you're dealing with a distro kernel that's essentially
forced to compile with NR_CPUS=<some moby integer>, but booting on a single or
dual core system with possibly not even 1G of memory.


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