Re: [RFC] Scalable statistics counters using kmalloc_percpu

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
26 Jul 2002 12:50:12 -0700


On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:46, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Oh dear. Most people only have two CPUs.
> > Rusty, can we *please* fix this? Really soon?
>
> I'll post the panic triggered by lowering NR_CPUS shortly. There's
> an ugly showstopping i386 arch code issue here.

In current 2.5? I thought Andrew and I fixed all those issues and
pushed them to Linus...

The `configurable NR_CPUS' patch works fine for me. I always boot with
NR_CPUS=2.

Robert love

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