Re: [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 08:16:06 EST



* Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Xen wants page-aligned GDT (and PDA must not cross a page-boundary,
> but that doesn't happen at the moment since it's so close to start of
> page). Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data.
>
> Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max
> per-cpu memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.

i recently needed page-aligned per-cpu data too for KVM-paravirt. Btw.,
what's the size increase of the native kernel?

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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