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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	magnus@valinux.co.jp,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"A. P. Whitcroft [imap]" <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: single node SPARSEMEM fix
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:46:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126140395.6354.14.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907164945.14aba736.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
> > Ah, OK - makes more sense. However, some machines do have large holes
> > in e820 map setups - is not really critical, more of an efficiency
> > thing.
> 
> Confused.   Does all this mean that we want the patch, or not?

I say we wait on it.

Martin brings up a scenario in which SPARSEMEM is useful without NUMA,
but it Magnus's patch doesn't actually deal with systems like that.
Let's do it right, and base the memory_present() calls off of real data
from the e820 or efi data.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06  3:56 Magnus Damm
2005-09-07 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-07 18:22   ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-07 18:27     ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-07 18:34       ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-07 23:49         ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-08  0:46           ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-09-08  1:54           ` Magnus Damm
2005-09-08  6:11           ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-08  6:36             ` Magnus Damm
2005-09-08  1:51       ` Magnus Damm
2005-09-08  1:45     ` Magnus Damm
2005-09-08  1:40   ` Magnus Damm

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