From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tight check of pfn_valid on sparsemem - v4
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:30:23 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007291222410.17734@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100729170313.GB16420@barrios-desktop>
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:
> But Russell doesn't want it.
> Please, look at the discussion.
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg93026.html
>
> In fact, we didn't determine the approache at that time.
> But I think we can't give up ARM's usecase although sparse model
> dosn't be desinged to the such granularity. and I think this approach
The sparse model goes down to page size memmap granularity. The problem
that you may have is with aligning the maximum allocation unit of the
page allocator with the section size of sparsemem. If you reduce your
maximum allocation units then you can get more granularity.
> can solve ARM's FLATMEM's pfn_valid problem which is doing binar search.
OMG.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 15:46 Minchan Kim
2010-07-26 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-26 22:47 ` Minchan Kim
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[not found] ` <AANLkTimtTVvorrR9pDVTyPKj0HbYOYY3aR7B-QWGhTei@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-27 8:12 ` Milton Miller
2010-07-27 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-27 10:01 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-27 14:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-27 22:33 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28 15:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-28 15:56 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28 17:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-28 22:57 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-29 15:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-29 16:18 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-29 16:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-29 17:03 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-29 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-07-29 18:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-29 19:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-29 21:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-29 20:55 ` Dave Hansen
2010-07-29 22:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-29 22:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-30 0:38 ` Dave Hansen
2010-07-30 9:43 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-30 12:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-30 15:43 ` Dave Hansen
2010-07-31 15:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-02 15:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-07-30 9:32 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-31 10:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-11 15:31 ` Dave Hansen
2010-07-27 9:56 ` Minchan Kim
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