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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: One idea to free up page flags on NUMA
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:24:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609240924.42382.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609231845380.16383@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Sunday 24 September 2006 03:57, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I just looked at the arch code for i386 and x86_64 and it seems that
> > > both already have page tables for all of memory.
> >
> > i386 doesn't map all of memory.
>
> Hmmm... It only maps the kernel text segment?

Only lowmem (normally upto ~900MB)

But virtual memory is very scarce so I don't know where a new map for mem_map
would come from. Ok you could try to move the physical location of mem_map to 
somewhere not in lowmem I suppose.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-24  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-23  3:02 One idea to free up page flags on NUMA Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 16:04 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23 16:39   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 18:43     ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-24  1:57       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-24  7:24         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-25  0:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-25  3:04             ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25  3:46               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-23 19:24     ` Dave Hansen
2006-09-24  1:56       ` Christoph Lameter

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