Re: 2.6.0 test3 does not boot on ia64 NUMA

[Xavier Bru <Xavier.Bru@bull.net>]

Jesse Barnes writes:
 > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:06:46PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
 > > What are the remaining issues with sparse memory within a node?
 > > CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP should be able to cope with this without
 > > wasting memory on "struct page" for non-existent pages in the holes.
 > 
 > Yeah, that's what we're using the latest discontig patches.
 > 
 > > Presumably there are some bootmem bitmap size issues if the gaps
 > > within nodes are too huge.  But a few GB shouldn't be a problem (with
 > > a 16K page size, each GB of memory/hole only takes 8K of bitmap).
 > 
 > Right, until we get really huge holes, that'll be ok, and there are
 > already some optimizations to keep track of the last place a successful
 > bootmem allocation came from so that you don't keep walking through the
 > holes, which helped zx1 boots.

This allows supporting our platform without specific modifications.
 
> 
 > > Is there anything else that blows up?
 > 
 > Not that I know of...
 > 
 > > If not, then could we just drop the printk altogether?
 > 
 > Sure, sounds good to me.

About code cleaning, it seems that the IA64_NODESIZE_* 
options are still present in Kconfig but no more used, at least for
DIG platforms.

Thanks again for taking in account our problem.
Xavier

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