From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:02 -0800 (PST)
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > Yes, I could add virtualized area support to sparc64, but we cannot > > impose this on every platform. > > Other platforms do not have the 8MB restriction nor do they have so many > processors. sparc32 has the same limitations, nobody is going to implement the virt stuff there. > Here is the draft of a virtual cpu area implementation for sparc64. Uses > the VMEMMAP chunks: This doesn't avoid the core problem. Bloating up the BSS like that is bad, end enforcing a virt implementation to avoid that is an anti-social way to go about implementing this feature. - 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/
