KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:33:33 +0530
> Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Another issue is that it will slightly increase TLB/cache
>>> cost of the memory controller, but I think that would be a fair
>>> trade off for it being zero cost when disabled but compiled
>>> in.
>>>
>>> Doing it with vmalloc should be easy enough. I can do such
>>> a patch later unless someone beats me to it...
>>>
>> I'll get to it, but I have too many things on my plate at the moment.
>> KAMEZAWA
>> also wanted to look at it. I looked through some vmalloc() internals
>> yesterday
>> and I am worried about allocating all the memory on a single node in a NUMA
>> system and changing VMALLOC_XXXX on every architecture to provide more
>> vmalloc
>> space. I might be missing something obvious.
>>
>
> I'll post a series of patch to do that later (it's under debug now...)
> I'm glad if people (including you) look it and give me advices.
>
Thank you so much for your help. I'll definitely look at it and review/test
them.
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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