On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:33:04 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Sorry, but this is crap. zones and nodes are distinct, physical concepts > > and you're kidding yourself if you think you can somehow fudge things to > > make > > one of them just go away. > > > > Think: ZONE_DMA32 on an Opteron machine. I don't think there is a sane way > > in which we can fudge away the distinction between > > bus-addresses-which-have-the-32-upper-bits-zero and > > memory-which-is-local-to-each-socket. > > Of course you can. Add a virtual DMA and DMA32 zone/node and extract the > relevant memory from the base zone/node. You're using terms which I've never seen described anywhere. Please, just stop here. Give us a complete design proposal which we can understand and review. - 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/
