Andi Kleen wrote: >>> >> *Ahem* virtual machines *ahem*... > > And? Even there's not that big typically. > > The traditional problem was just for 128 NR_CPUs kernel were nothing > was sized based on machine capacity. > > Also on large systems the VMs shouldn't be sized for full capacity. > We have already have cases where the "possible" CPUs have eaten up the entire vmalloc area on 32 bits. In real use. It's a real problem. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
