From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: sparsemem & sparsemem extreme question
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:45:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005174542.GB10204@osiris.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128532809.26009.39.camel@localhost>
> > Anything specific you need to know about the memory layout?
> How sparse is it? How few present pages can be there be in a worst-case
> physical area?
Worst case that is already currently valid is that you can have 1 MB
segments whereever you want in address space.
For instance I just configured a virtual machine that has the following
memory layout:
Address Range
-----------------------------------
0000000000000000 - 00000000000FFFFF
000000FFC0000000 - 000000FFC00FFFFF
Even though it's currently not possible to define memory segments above
1TB, this limit is likely to go away.
In addition if running in a logical partition we always have a small gap
at the 2GB barrier. Not sure how large that gap is, I'll check tomorrow.
Heiko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-05 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 6:50 Heiko Carstens
2005-10-04 14:33 ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-10-04 16:15 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 6:39 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-05 15:52 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 15:58 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-05 16:05 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 16:10 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-05 16:20 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 17:12 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-05 17:20 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 17:45 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2005-10-05 17:57 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-05 18:04 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-05 18:42 ` Bob Picco
2005-10-05 22:06 ` Dave Hansen
2005-10-06 7:39 ` Heiko Carstens
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