Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase the upper bound on NR_CPUS.

From: [email-masked] (Tony Breeds)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:23:14 +1100

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:17:16PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:16 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > ---
> > why not?
> 
> How big is say a pseries_defconfig with NR_CPUS = 1024 ?

This is a ppc64_defconfig, with a couple of extra patches, and
NR_CPUS=1024

tony@Sprygo:~/scratch/working$ size ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.{pmac,pseries,iseries} ../working_out/vmlinux
   text    data     bss      dec     hex filename
3697092    5356   48232  3750680  393b18 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac
3697092    5356   48232  3750680  393b18 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries
8101340 4994176  815544 13911060  d44414 ../working_out/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.iseries
8101340 4994176  815544 13911060  d44414 ../working_out/vmlinux

Yours Tony

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