> I'm sorry it sounds like NTFS code needs rework, not Rusty's patch.
> Feel free to enlighten me why I am wrong.
Uh no. We have both static (NR_CPUS) and dynamic (smp_num_cpus) code in
the kernel... both are legit for different purposes.
This patch takes Anton's code and swaps a kmalloc based on smp_num_cpus
to NR_CPUS. I.e., on my 2-way machine I use 16x more memory.
Robert Love
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