From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Williams Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:48:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] long format VHPT Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi Arun These are useful suggestions and we will need a solution that covers all possible scenarios for the page table walker, I have just begun looking at the Ia64 code and so my responses may be slow until I get my head around it. One question I do have is that if we are initialising vhpt in do_boot_cpu() are we only talking about SMP machines here, what about UNI processor machines? Darren On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Arun Sharma wrote: > Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > >I did some hacking over the weekend. VHPT allocation can be done > >from boot processor in function do_boot_cpu() before waking up > >secondary CPUs. Allocation can be easily made numa friendly by > >calling alloc_pages_node (didn't bother to do that for now). > > I was thinking of the hot-plug CPU case, where the allocation has to be > done on the newly added CPU anyway. > > -Arun -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams Gelato@UNSW --------------------------------------------------