On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, OK - makes more sense. However, some machines do have large holes > > in e820 map setups - is not really critical, more of an efficiency > > thing. > > Confused. Does all this mean that we want the patch, or not?
I say we wait on it. Martin brings up a scenario in which SPARSEMEM is useful without NUMA, but it Magnus's patch doesn't actually deal with systems like that. Let's do it right, and base the memory_present() calls off of real data from the e820 or efi data. -- Dave - 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/
