Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932263AbXEVJo3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 05:44:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756627AbXEVJoV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 05:44:21 -0400 Received: from assei2bl6.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.133.69]:33173 "EHLO assei2bl6.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756037AbXEVJoU (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 05:44:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:44:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Christoph Lameter Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , ak@suse.de, dada1@cosmosbay.com, wli@holomorphy.com, npiggin@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070518040854.GA15654@wotan.suse.de> <464FCA28.9040009@cosmosbay.com> <200705201456.26283.ak@suse.de> <20070522093050.0320d092.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 25 On Mon, 21 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > For i386(32bit arch), there is not enough space for vmemmap. > > I thought 32 bit would use flatmem? Is memory really sparse on 32 > bit? Likely difficult due to lack of address space? Throwing in more crazy comments: many m68k boxes have really sparse memory, due to lack of memory and large address space. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/