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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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  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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