Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: Merging Nonlinear and Numa style memory hotplug

From: Yasunori Goto
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 15:48:05 EST


> > Are you sure that all architectures need phys_section?
>
> You don't *need* it, but the alternative is a scan of the mem_section[]
> array, which would be much, much slower.
>
> Do you have an idea for an alternate implementation?

I didn't find that scan of the mem_section[] is necessary.
I thought just that mem_section index = phys_section index.
May I ask why scan of mem_section is necessary?
I might still have misunderstood something.


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Yasunori Goto <ygoto at us.fujitsu.com>


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