On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:02:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:33:23 +0200
> Jarek Poplawski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > smpboot: cachesize comparison fix in smp_tune_scheduling()
> >
> > boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_size is signed int and can be < 0 too.
...
> Under what conditions can boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_size be negative?
>
> Have negative values of boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_size been observed in
> practice?
Sorry, but IMHO every observations are only kind of illusions,
and should have no influence on any serious science, including
computer science.
But, from smpboot.c history:
"[PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling()
Adrian Bunk [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 01:14:19 +0000 (02:14 +0100)]
- remove the write-only local variable "bandwidth"
- don't set "max_cache_size" in the (cachesize < 0) case:
that's already handled in kernel/sched.c:measure_migration_cost()"
So, it seems such strange phenomenon could've been observed
long time ago...
Thanks,
Jarek P.
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