Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] powerpc/mm/slice: Allow up to 64 low slices

2018-02-11 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Christophe Leroy writes: > While the implementation of the "slices" address space allows > a significant amount of high slices, it limits the number of > low slices to 16 due to the use of a single u64 low_slices_psize > element in struct mm_context_t > > On the 8xx, the minimum slice size is the

[PATCH v4 4/5] powerpc/mm/slice: Allow up to 64 low slices

2018-02-10 Thread Christophe Leroy
While the implementation of the "slices" address space allows a significant amount of high slices, it limits the number of low slices to 16 due to the use of a single u64 low_slices_psize element in struct mm_context_t On the 8xx, the minimum slice size is the size of the area covered by a single