Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:59 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86: Modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus |
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> > * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > On Fri 2008-04-25 17:15:49, Mike Travis wrote: > > > * Increase the limit of NR_CPUS to 4096 and introduce a boolean > > > called "MAXSMP" which when set (e.g. "allyesconfig"), will set > > > NR_CPUS = 4096 and NODES_SHIFT = 9 (512). > > > > Why is redundant option 'maxsmp' a good idea? > > because this way randconfig can trigger it and can configure all the > otherwise randconfig-invisible [or just plain unlikely] numerics and > options up to their max. > > I found 2-3 "large box" bugs via that way already.
Should we improve randconfig to select numeric values when range is given, too? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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