From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:20:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix 256 node machines by increasing NODES_SHIFT value Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:01:53PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:56:19 -0800, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said: > > Jesse> We need 8 bits for the NODE_SHIFT otherwise 256 node systems > Jesse> fail in weird ways. > > I think I'm going to push back on this one since Linus wants to limit > patches to stuff that affects (relatively) large number of folks, and > I don't think there are more than a handful of >256 node systems out > there (in fact, I've heard only of one). Otherwise, I'm OK with the > patch, so we should include it in 2.6.1. Please retransmit after > 2.6.1 is out. > > Ditto for Jack's patch. > > OK? Yep, no problem. Just posting it for comments more than anything else. Jesse