Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:02:56 -0800
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seq_file version of /proc/interrupts
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:36:26AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> This version should scale to something over 300 processors, after which it
> will not be possible to fit even a single line of /proc/interrupts output
> into one page.  At that point, if this output format is even remotely
> useful, some sort of iterator which tracks interrupt and CPU numbers will
> be needed.

I assume you're talking about overflowing a 4k page?  If so, we might be
able to limp along with the small 300p limit for awhile on ia64 since
most people running large systems use at least a 16k page size.

Thanks,
Jesse
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