Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: Merging Nonlinear and Numa style memory hotplug | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:59:33 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 11:48, Yasunori Goto wrote: > > > > > Should this translation be in common code? > > > > What do you mean by common code? It should be shared by all > > architectures. > > If physical memory chunk size is larger than the area which > should be contiguous like IA32's kmalloc, > there is no merit in this code. > So, I thought only mem_section is enough. > But I don't know about other architecutures yet and I'm not sure. > > 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?
-- Dave
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