On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:53 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Well think about how to handle the case that the allocatiopn of a page > > > table page or a vmemmap block fails. Once we have that sorted out then we > > > can cleanup the higher layers. > > > > I think it is best to just completely replace > > sparse_early_mem_map_alloc() for the vmemmap case. It really is a > > completely different beast. You'd never, for instance, have > > alloc_remap() come into play. > > What is the purpose of alloc_remap? Could not figure that one out.
That's what we use on i386 to get some lowmem area for non-zero NUMA nodes. Otherwise, all of ZONE_NORMAL is on node 0. It's a bit hokey, and stuff like virt_to_phys() probably doesn't work on it, but it has worked pretty well for a long time. -- Dave - 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/
