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

From: Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 17:39:54 EST


> The difference is that if you use discontigmem you don't clobber the
> common code in any way, there is no "logical/ordinal" abstraction,
> there is no special table, it's all hidden in the arch section, and the
> pgdat you need them anyways to allocate from affine memory with numa.

I *want* the logical / ordinal abstraction. That's not a negative thing -
it reduces the number of complicated things I have to think about,
allowing me to think more clearly, and write correct code ;-)

Not having a multitude of zones to balance in the normal discontigmem
case also seems like a powerful argument to me ...

M.

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