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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:33:53 +0000
From:      John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include param.h src/sys/arm/include param.h src/sys/i386/include param.h src/sys/ia64/include param.h src/sys/powerpc/include param.h src/sys/sparc64/include param.h src/sys/sun4v/include param.h
Message-ID:  <20080327203353.GB30621@what-creek.com>
In-Reply-To: <47EBC053.9080604@freebsd.org>
References:  <200803270503.m2R53Qr7053473@repoman.freebsd.org> <47EBC053.9080604@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:42:11AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> What is the impact on UP+small systems?  Those of us building for 
> embedded applications are already fighting the existing bloat in the kernel.

I don't think this is a big deal for UP+small systems because they
probably don't allocate things in the kernel modules that are
dimensioned by MAXCPU.

The FreeBSD kernel module design relies on kernel modules being built
to work both on UP and SMP if the arch allows.

--
John Birrell



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