Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 17:03:31 EST


From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:49:37 -0800 (PST)

> Well there is an LWN article now that also claims that the cpu_alloc
> patchset requires a large bss space. Sigh. See
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/257828/
>
> Not true! 44 bytes is reasonable.

Well, the first version of the patch set, the one I tested, did
require a lot of BSS space. And that's the one they are writing
about.

I don't see how you can even remotely claim that LWN's reporting is
inaccurate here.
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