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

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:33:40 +0100

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Tony Breeds wrote:
> why not?

In the past I've seen run-time problems because some parts of the
code kmalloc NR_CPUS sized arrays, which can easily grow beyond
the kmalloc limit of 128kb. Have you tried running some tests
on a small machine with the big NR_CPUS?

	Arnd <><