From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
ak@suse.de, dada1@cosmosbay.com, wli@holomorphy.com,
npiggin@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:44:17 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705221142340.11196@anakin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705211737450.24160@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > For i386(32bit arch), there is not enough space for vmemmap.
>
> I thought 32 bit would use flatmem? Is memory really sparse on 32
> bit? Likely difficult due to lack of address space?
Throwing in more crazy comments: many m68k boxes have really sparse memory, due
to lack of memory and large address space.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 4:08 Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 4:47 ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:22 ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 7:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18 7:32 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18 7:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 9:42 ` David Howells
2007-05-19 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 12:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-18 15:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-19 1:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19 17:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20 22:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-18 18:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 20:37 ` Luck, Tony
2007-05-21 6:28 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-19 1:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19 2:03 ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! (now sparsemem vmemmap) Christoph Lameter
2007-05-19 15:43 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-19 18:15 ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-19 18:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 4:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-20 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-21 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 0:30 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 0:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 0:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2007-05-19 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-20 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:12 ` Helge Hafting
2007-05-21 9:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20 5:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20 8:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20 9:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 8:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:27 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 11:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 0:52 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 22:43 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-22 1:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 1:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 1:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 1:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 5:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 6:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 10:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-21 17:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 17:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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