From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davem@redhat.com,
davidm@hpl.hp.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:19:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000815171954.U12218@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008101718.KAA33467@google.engr.sgi.com>; from kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:18:49AM -0700
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:18:49AM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> Thought I would send out a quick note about a change I put into test6.
> Basically, to make it easier to implement DISCONTIGMEM systems, the
> concepts of page/mem_map number/index has been killed from the generic
> (non architecture specific) parts of the kernel.
Excellent, this will make it _tons_ easier for me to create new zones
of mem_map arrays on the fly to allow us to create struct pages for
PCI IO-aperture memory (necessary for kiobuf mappings of IO memory).
Thanks!
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-15 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-10 17:18 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-11 2:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-14 0:34 ` Anton Blanchard
2000-08-11 11:50 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-11 13:20 ` Russell King
2000-08-11 14:56 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-12 9:18 ` Bjorn Wesen
2000-08-11 17:21 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-14 9:29 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-15 16:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-08-16 8:25 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-16 17:13 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:47 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:39 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 22:22 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 9:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-17 19:07 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:20 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:33 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-09-07 14:31 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-08-17 19:50 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:41 ` David S. Miller
2000-09-07 14:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-08-17 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:32 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:30 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 20:00 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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