Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751753AbVLGSs3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:48:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751750AbVLGSs3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:48:29 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:35544 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751720AbVLGSs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:48:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:47:45 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: "Luck, Tony" cc: Keith Owens , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti Subject: RE: [RFC 1/3] Framework for accurate node based statistics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 18 On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Luck, Tony wrote: > Can you live with a pointer to that monster block of space in the > per-cpu area? > > Otherwise the next step up is a 256K per cpu area ... which I wouldn't > want to make the default (so we'll have another 2*X explosion in the > number of possible configs to test). Lets wait. I just did this to show how local_t could be implemented. This is a RFC and the major problems (f.e. the 3 second delay) have not been addressed so this is all vaporware for now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/