Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?]

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 20:05:48 EST


On Wednesday 01 May 2002 01:12, I wrote:
> Config_discontigmem
> -------------------
>
> Has exactly one purpose: to eliminate memory wastage due to struct pages
> that refer to unpopulated regions of memory...

That is, when not used together with config_numa. When used with config_numa,
it has a second purpose: to allow ->mem_map arrays to exist on the same numa
node as the referenced pages. The config_nonlinear patch could be extended
to handle this as well (by elaborating the definitions of virt_to_page and
phys_to_page) but I don't have plans to do that at this time.

-- 
Daniel
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