From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: apw@shadowen.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SPARSEMEM] confusing uses of SPARSEM_EXTREME (try #2)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:10:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150128603.13644.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448D1117.8010407@innova-card.com>
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:00 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Is it me or the use of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is really confusing in
> mm/sparce.c ? Shouldn't we use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC instead like
> the following patch suggests ?
I'll take positive config options over negative ones any day. I find it
easier to read things that say what they *are* rather than what they are
*not*.
In any case, STATIC is really there as an override for architectures to
say, "I know what I am doing, I use gcc 3.4 and above, or, I don't want
to use bootmem". Extreme is really there to say, "I want two-level
lookups because my memory is extremely sparse."
Make sense?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-12 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-12 7:00 [SPARSEMEM] confusing uses of SPARSEM_EXTREME (try #2) Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 16:10 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2006-06-13 8:51 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 16:25 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-12 17:21 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 17:32 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-13 8:34 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-13 10:05 ` Andy Whitcroft
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