On Friday 18 January 2008 10:41, Rusty Russell wrote: > vfs_init_caches_early() does nothing on IA-64 and x86-64 (unless you > turn off CONFIG_NUMA): hashdist is set by default on these platforms. > > Maybe some obscure feature which requires VFS to be set up v. early > (hence is broken in this configuration), or something arch-specific > (which seems unlikely).
The use of hugepage mappings for your hashes rather than vmalloc memory? Or did I misunderstand you? ... bootmem is needed for very large physically contiguous allocations. -- 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/