Re: [PATCH] MAX_MP_BUSSES increase

[Andi Kleen]

[e-mail] (Ingo Molnar) writes:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > > Marcello and Linus, please apply.
> >
> > Can you give a rough description of what kinds of arrays this will
> > impact, just out of curiosity. Ie do we talk about "5kB more memory in
> > order to avoid problems", or are we talking about something
> > noticeable..
> >
> > 		Linus "too lazy to grep" Torvalds
> 
> the change is OK, it's about +3K RAM used, on SMP kernels.

hmm, I come more to 11K (most of it in mp_irqs) 
... which could be easily allocated with the bootmem allocator at parse time.

-Andi