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Message-Id: <1194455550.7078.58.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:12:30 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@...el.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] Allocate sparse vmemmap block above 4G

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:07 +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:
> Try to allocate sparse vmemmap block above 4G on x64 system.
> 
> On some single node x64 system with huge amount of physical memory e.g
> 64G. the memmap size maybe very big. 

Could we just change the default bootmem behavior to allocate top-down?

-- Dave

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