From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:19:54 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Message-ID: <20000815171954.U12218@redhat.com> References: <200008101718.KAA33467@google.engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kanoj Sarcar 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 List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/