On 8/19/19 9:15 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 8/16/19 2:57 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: >> Florian Weimer schreef op vr 16-08-2019 om 14:04 [+0200]: >>> RHEL has a larger NR_CPU value, though. For example, it's 8192 on >>> x86-64, while Fedora 31 has 1024. >> >> On the Fedora x86-64 debug builds it's 8192 again. Why's that? >> >> >> Paul Bolle >> > > That's the option for max cpus. We don't want to turn it on in all > Fedora builds since it would use up more resources we probably don't > actually need. Turning on for debugging in Fedora is okay though. > RHEL is focused on larger footprints and makes the trade off to > have it enabled all the time. > I think I measured the impact of 8192 vs 512 (or 256?) a long time ago and we are talking about _k_ of memory. We should stick with what upstream has at 8192. It's easier to debug when we have the same value as the default IMO. Having said that, it has been a long time since I had to debug a NR_CPUS/nr_cpus issue in the kernel. We're just not seeing bugs around the value anymore. P. > Thanks, > Laura > _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
