Re: [Patch] Allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G on X86_64

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On 18 May 2007 10:52:57 +0800 Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 03:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On 17 May 2007 10:40:07 +0800 > > Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Please always prefer to use static inline functions rather than macros. > > They ar

Re: [Patch] Allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G on X86_64

2007-05-17 Thread Zou Nan hai
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 03:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > On 17 May 2007 10:40:07 +0800 > Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please always prefer to use static inline functions rather than macros. > They are more readable, they are more likely to have comments attached to > them and they p

Re: [Patch] Allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G on X86_64

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On 17 May 2007 10:40:07 +0800 Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On system with huge amount of physical memory. > VFS cache and memory memmap may eat all available system memory under > 4G, then system may fail to allocated swiotlb bounce buffer. > > There was a fix in arch/x86_64/mm/numa