Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jul 29 2006 - 00:07:39 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 2.6.18-rc2 works fine with same config.
> >
> > In this case the error is:
> >
> > No per-cpu room for modules
>
> yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing
> anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu
> memory in the kstat structure.

while the fundamental issue is the NR_IRQS problem which we'll fix
separately, Steve has a patchset to make percpu room dynamic:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/14/137

Ingo
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