From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:44:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070518040854.GA15654@wotan.suse.de> <464FCA28.9040009@cosmosbay.com> <200705201456.26283.ak@suse.de> <20070522093050.0320d092.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , 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 List-ID: 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org