Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762243AbYGJTSq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:18:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760636AbYGJTSh (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:18:37 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:40232 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760352AbYGJTSg (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:18:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4876608B.10408@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:18:35 -0700 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Christoph Lameter , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses References: <20080709165129.292635000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080709200757.GD14009@elte.hu> <48751B57.8030605@goop.org> <48751CF9.4020901@linux-foundation.org> <4875209D.8010603@goop.org> <48752CCD.30507@linux-foundation.org> <48753C99.5050408@goop.org> <487555A8.2050007@zytor.com> <487556A5.5090907@goop.org> <4876194E.4080205@linux-foundation.org> <48761C06.3020003@zytor.com> <48762A3B.5050104@linux-foundation.org> <48762DD2.5090802@zytor.com> <487637A1.4080403@linux-foundation.org> <48764C21.4020601@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 22 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> Almost half a megabyte in current allyesconfig, and that is not including >> dynamic allocations at all. > > Ouch! This start to make me sad I removed the arbitrary cap on static > percpu memory. > > Eric The biggest growth came from moving all the xxx[NR_CPUS] arrays into the per cpu area. So you free up a huge amount of unused memory when the NR_CPUS count starts getting into the ozone layer. 4k now, 16k real soon now, ??? future? Mike -- 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/