Re: [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs

Andrew Morton a écrit :

Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thursday 09 February 2006 19:04, Andrew Morton wrote:

Ashok Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

The problem was with ACPI just simply looking at the namespace doesnt
 exactly give us an idea of how many processors are possible in this platform.

We need to fix this asap - the performance penalty for HOTPLUG_CPU=y,
NR_CPUS=lots will be appreciable.

What is this performance penalty exactly?

All those for_each_cpu() loops will hit NR_CPUS cachelines instead of
hweight(cpu_possible_map) cachelines.

You mean NR_CPUS bits, mostly all included in a single cacheline, and even in a single long word :) for most cases (NR_CPUS <= 32 or 64)

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