Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: Merging Nonlinear and Numa style memoryhotplug

[Dave Hansen]

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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