Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:12:12 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: x86_64: Make sparsemem/vmemmap the default memory model |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:42:31 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> x86_64: Make sparsemem/vmemmap the default memory model > > Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA. > Measurements indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher overhead > than sparsemem. And FLATMEMs benefits are minimal. So I think its > best to simply standardize on sparsemem.
Unfortunately some loon has gone and merged the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files. I was fixing that up but I worry what effects these Kconfig changes might have on, for example, i386 NUMA setups.
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