Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 05:44:30 EST


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

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