linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

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Message-Id: <20071113.173346.100252448.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:33:46 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clameter@....com
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:00:45 -0800 (PST)

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > Once you add in mm/vmalloc.c all needed helpers, no need to use BSS Megablob
> > anymore ?
> 
> Well I think all of this can be avoided by simply copying the existing 
> vmemmap helper functions and providing a virtual address for sparc64.

I intend to do that in the end, but you miss my point.
Requiring this is unreasonable.

And nobody is going to do the virt stuff for platforms like sparc32.
And I do mean nobody.
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