Eric W. Biederman wrote:
At 10 kernel threads per cpu there may be a little bloat but it isn't out of control. It is mostly that we are observing the kernel as NR_CPUS approaches infinity. 4096 isn't infinity yet but it's easily a 1000 fold bigger then most people are used to :)
I disagree there is only a little bloat: the current mechanism in place does not scale as NR_CPUS increases, as this thread demonstrates.
Beyond a certain point, on an 8-CPU box, it gets silly. You certainly don't need eight kblockd threads or eight ata threads.
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