On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 19:41 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > Anton Blanchard wrote:
> >
> >>On architectures that implement sparsemem but not discontigmem we want
> >>to be able to hide the flatmem option in some cases. On ppc64 for
> >>example, when we select NUMA we must not select flatmem.
> >
> > First reaction is that this is very reasonable. I can see why you need
> > to do this as you don't have DISCONTIGMEM. I will just go check the
> > major architectures and make sure they arn't relying on being able to
> > enable SPARSEMEM and getting FLATMEM too behaviour. I don't think they
> > can be as they all have DISCONTIGMEM and so should be insulated.
>
> Ok. I've reviewed the usage of the memory model selectors in the
> architectures in 2.6.14-mm2. It appears that only i386 is affected by
> this change, the others that use the selector have explicit enablement
> of FLATMEM. This patch will interact badly with the current code to
> enable SPARSEMEM on non-numa systems. However, this code is under
> review at this moment, and the proposed replacement (Message-ID:
> <[email protected]>) is compatible with this change.
>
> In short as long as they go in together this change looks good.
>
> Magnus, any feedback on the replacement SPARSEMEM enabler on non-NUMA
> i386 systems??
I tested your patch in QEMU on top of 2.6.15-rc1-git1 and it seems to
work well. Many thanks!
/ magnus
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