From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64: Make sparsemem/vmemmap the default memory model
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:59:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711130059.34346.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121549370.29178@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 00:52:14 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA.
>
> Measurements indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher
> overhead than sparsemem. And FLATMEMs benefits are minimal. So I think its
> best to simply standardize on sparsemem.
How about the memory overhead? Is it the same too?
And code size vs flatmem?
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 23:52 Christoph Lameter
2007-11-12 23:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-11-13 0:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13 0:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-13 3:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13 4:27 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-13 4:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13 20:41 ` Jörn Engel
2007-11-13 21:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13 22:30 ` Jörn Engel
2007-11-15 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-16 2:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-16 2:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-16 3:55 ` x86_64: Make sparsemem/vmemmap the default memory model V2 Christoph Lameter
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