Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Sparse Memory Handling (hot-add foundation) | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:04:06 +0100 |
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Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> The attached patch, largely written by Andy Whitcroft, implements a > feature which is similar to DISCONTIGMEM, but has some added features. > Instead of splitting up the mem_map for each NUMA node, this splits it > up into areas that represent fixed blocks of memory. This allows > individual pieces of that memory to be easily added and removed.
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I'm curious - how does this affect .text size for a i386 or x86-64 NUMA kernel? One area I wanted to improve on x86-64 for a long time was to shrink the big virt_to_page() etc. inline macros. Your new code actually looks a bit smaller.
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