Re: regression introduced by - timers: fix itimer/many thread hang

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Also, you just introduced per-cpu allocations for each thread-group,
> while Christoph is reworking the per-cpu allocator, with one unfortunate
> side-effect - its going to have a limited size pool. Therefore this will
> limit the number of thread-groups we can have.

Patches exist that implement a dynamically growable percpu pool (using
virtual mappings though). If the cost of the additional complexity /
overhead is justifiable then we can make the percpu pool dynamically
extendable.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/