Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?]

From: Jesse Barnes (jbarnes@sgi.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 13:05:47 EST


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:23:41AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> What's the advantage? And after you can have more than one mem_map,
> after you added this "vector", then each mem_map will match a
> discontigmem pgdat. Tell me a numa machine where there's an hole in the
> middle of a node. The holes are always intra-node, never within the
> nodes themself. So the nonlinear-numa should fallback to the stright

Just FYI, there _are_ many NUMA machines with memory holes in the
middle of a node. Check out the discontig patch at
http://sf.net/projects/discontig for more info.

Jesse
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