Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:13:49 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86: Modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus |
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Pavel Machek wrote: >> * 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
Would not be a bad idea; preferrably with a logarithmic distribution.
-hpa
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