Re: [RFC PATCHv3 00/11] Intermix Lowmem and vmalloc

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Fri Jan 03 2014 - 17:08:59 EST


On 1/3/2014 10:23 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 01/02/2014 01:53 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
The goal here is to allow as much lowmem to be mapped as if the block of memory
was not reserved from the physical lowmem region. Previously, we had been
hacking up the direct virt <-> phys translation to ignore a large region of
memory. This did not scale for multiple holes of memory however.

How much lowmem do these holes end up eating up in practice, ballpark?
I'm curious how painful this is going to get.


In total, the worst case can be close to 100M with an average case around 70M-80M. The split and number of holes vary with the layout but end up with 60M-80M one hole and the rest in the other.

Thanks,
Laura

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