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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove vfs_init_caches_early()
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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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