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    SubjectRe: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator
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    From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:02 -0800 (PST)

    > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:
    >
    > > Yes, I could add virtualized area support to sparc64, but we cannot
    > > impose this on every platform.
    >
    > Other platforms do not have the 8MB restriction nor do they have so many
    > processors.

    sparc32 has the same limitations, nobody is going to implement
    the virt stuff there.

    > Here is the draft of a virtual cpu area implementation for sparc64. Uses
    > the VMEMMAP chunks:

    This doesn't avoid the core problem. Bloating up the BSS like
    that is bad, end enforcing a virt implementation to avoid that
    is an anti-social way to go about implementing this feature.
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