Re: [origin tree build failure] Re: [PULL] Please pull hwpoison code for 2.6.32

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Sep 26 2009 - 14:20:48 EST


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:15:23AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We're definitely going to continue to have this problem until we decide we have hit the pain threshold either support external *zone* numbers or permit a 64-bit pageflags.

Yes I agree. I implemented a perfect hash scheme for the NUMA pfn->node
mapping a long time ago which is still there, that code could be probably
extended to support zones too. It would just make the hash slightly larger.

-Andi
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