Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 |
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT) > > > Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last > > year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be > > taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that. > > Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I > like the flexibility it gives me.
I am not sure what flexibility you are talking about? The modification are to make sparsemem support virtual memmap as one option. See Kame-san's posts. There is no regression here its just cutting out the overhead of sparsmem from within.
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