From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:15:39 -0700 (PDT) > After boot is complete we allow the reduction of the size of the per cpu > areas . Lets say we only need 128k per cpu. Then the remaining pages will > be returned to the page allocator. You don't know how much you will need. I exhausted the limit on sparc64 very late in the boot process when the last few userland services were starting up. And if I subsequently bring up 100,000 IP tunnels, it will exhaust the per-cpu allocation area. You have to make it fully dynamic, there is no way around it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html