Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove vfs_init_caches_early() | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:16:16 +1100 |
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On Friday 18 January 2008 10:41, Rusty Russell wrote: > vfs_init_caches_early() does nothing on IA-64 and x86-64 (unless you > turn off CONFIG_NUMA): hashdist is set by default on these platforms. > > Maybe some obscure feature which requires VFS to be set up v. early > (hence is broken in this configuration), or something arch-specific > (which seems unlikely).
The use of hugepage mappings for your hashes rather than vmalloc memory? Or did I misunderstand you? ... bootmem is needed for very large physically contiguous allocations.
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