Re: [SPARSEMEM] confusing uses of SPARSEM_EXTREME (try #2)

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:00 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Is it me or the use of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is really confusing in
> mm/sparce.c ? Shouldn't we use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC instead like
> the following patch suggests ? 

I'll take positive config options over negative ones any day.  I find it
easier to read things that say what they *are* rather than what they are
*not*.

In any case, STATIC is really there as an override for architectures to
say, "I know what I am doing, I use gcc 3.4 and above, or, I don't want
to use bootmem".  Extreme is really there to say, "I want two-level
lookups because my memory is extremely sparse."

Make sense?

-- Dave

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