Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:36:43 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator | From | David Miller <> |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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