On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:51:37 +0100 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Virtual mem_map is not useful for 32bit archs. This uses huge virtual > > address range. > > Why? The s390 vmem_map implementation which I sent last week to linux-mm > is merged in the meantime. It supports both 32 and 64 bit. > The main reason is to keep things simple and avoid #ifdef hell. > > Since the maximum size of the virtual array is about 16MB it's not much > waste of address space. Actually I just changed the size of the vmalloc > area, so that the maximum supported physical amount of memory is still 1920MB. I'm sorry. I don't stop anyone who want to use vmem_map. (My brain is polluted by ugly x86 36bit-space/32bit arch.) -Kame - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
