linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE

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Message-Id: <200704030031.24898.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:31:24 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86_64: Switch to SPARSE_VIRTUAL

On Monday 02 April 2007 23:56:08 Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:28 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > I do not care what its called as long as it 
> > covers all the bases and is not a glaring performance regresssion (like 
> > SPARSEMEM so far). 
> 
> I honestly don't doubt that there are regressions, somewhere.  Could you
> elaborate, and perhaps actually show us some numbers on this?  Perhaps
> instead of adding a completely new model, we can adapt the existing ones
> somehow.

If it works I would be inclined to replaced old sparsemem with Christoph's
new one on x86-64. Perhaps that could cut down the bewildering sparsemem
ifdef jungle that is there currently.

But I presume it won't work on 32bit because of the limited address space?

> But, without some cold, hard, data, we mere mortals without the 1024-way
> machines can only guess. ;)

Yep.

-Andi (who would be scared of a 1024 way x86 machine)
 
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