Re: Memory model

2008-06-09 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390) > currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines > DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SP

Re: Memory model

2008-06-09 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi! On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:33:06AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > afais fedora defaults to x86_64 SPARSEMEM > > also we had this as default since allmost ever, > you'll only find *one* changelog entry by fs for a bootup fixup change. Did the default change to SPARSEMEM some time ago? Be

Re: Memory model

2008-06-07 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390) > currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines > DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM. afais fedora defaults

Memory model

2008-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390) currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM. How should we handle this as this may have large speed impacts? Bastian