On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT) > > > Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last > > year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be > > taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that. > > Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I > like the flexibility it gives me.
I am not sure what flexibility you are talking about? The modification are to make sparsemem support virtual memmap as one option. See Kame-san's posts. There is no regression here its just cutting out the overhead of sparsmem from within. - 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/
