Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:30:50 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Besides with the scarcity of pageflags it might make sense to do "64 bit only"
> > flags at some point.
> 
> There is no scarcity of page flags. There is
> 
> 1. Hoarding by Andrew
> 
> 2. Waste by Sparsemem (section flags no longer necessary with
>    virtual memmap)

For i386(32bit arch), there is not enough space for vmemmap.
For 64bit arch, page flags are not exhausted yet.

-Kame


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