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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	"Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Make NR_IRQS configurable in Kconfig
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:53:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155221628.14749.60.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DB4547.80007@shadowen.org>

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:40 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Well you could do something more fun with the top of the address.  You
> don't need to keep the bytes in the same order for instance.  If this
> is really a fair size chunk at the bottom and one at the top then
> taking the address and swapping the bytes like:
> 
>         ABCDEFGH => BCDAEFGH
> 
> Would be a pretty trivial bit of register wibbling (ie very quick),
> but would probabally mean a single flat, smaller sparsemem table would
> cover all likely areas. 

Not if you don't know where the objects will be mapped..

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07 15:26 [PATCH] x86_64: Make NR_IRQS configurable in Kconfig Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 15:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 15:55   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 15:59 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-07 16:11   ` Protasevich, Natalie
2006-08-07 16:17     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 16:23       ` Protasevich, Natalie
2006-08-07 16:58       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 16:44   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 17:00     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-07 17:46       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 17:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-07 17:30   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 17:55     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-07 18:16       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 18:53       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 19:04         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-07 22:10           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 23:55             ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08  2:17               ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08  2:41                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08  2:47                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-08  5:47                     ` [PATCH] x86_64: Auto size the per cpu area Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08  6:01                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08  6:31                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08  6:01                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08  6:46                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08  6:48                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08  7:29                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-08  5:09                   ` [PATCH] x86_64: Make NR_IRQS configurable in Kconfig Paul Mackerras
2006-08-08  5:14                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08  8:17                       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-09 17:58                         ` Luck, Tony
2006-08-09 18:25                           ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-10 12:55                             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-10 14:40                               ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-10 14:53                                 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2006-08-07 19:40         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-07 22:26           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-07 23:06             ` Adrian Bunk

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