On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > In situations where CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONES is set (IA64 with VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP), > there may be cases where pages allocated within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block > of pages may not be displayed in /proc/page_owner if the hole is at the > start of the block. Addressing this would be quite complex, perform slowly > and is of no clear benefit.
Note that CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONES and IA64 VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP may be going away. Andy Whitcroft has a patchset that implements virtual memmap support under sparse and that would allow us to get rid of this. - 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/
