From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:13 -0700 (PDT)
> 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. I would really appreciate a posting that explains what exactly is going on being sent to linux-arch, this is the first time I myself am even aware of this idea and work. Thanks. - 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/
