Re: Using more than 256 MB of memory on SB1250 in 32-bit mode, revisited

["Matthew Starzewski" <mstarzewski@xes-inc.com>]

> I'm really unsure of what I'll say, but I've seen people on this list
> talking about CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, an option for the kernel, which is :
>
> "Say Y to upport efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
>  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
>   or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
>  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more."

I've tried using DISCONTIGMEM on the MIPS32 build, but it yields the
following build error.  Maybe someone familiar w/ the SGI IP27 (Origin 200
and
2000) code could tell us whether simply turning on DISCONTIGMEM is
a good idea.

include/linux/mmzone.h:364:2: #error NODES_SHIFT > MAX_NODES_SHIFT

Also, even if it compiled with DISCONTIGMEM, a look at
sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c
shows no sign of HIGHMEM support, what I was depending on to use the upper
256MB of memory as per my original email.  Now this may be OK; depending on
how
flexible the DISCONTIGMEM option is, perhaps I could map a wired TLB or
KSEG3
to the 2nd 256MB.

Thoughts?

Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org>
To: "Matthew Starzewski" <mstarzewski@xes-inc.com>
Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>; <Steve.Finney@SpirentCom.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: Using more than 256 MB of memory on SB1250 in 32-bit mode,
revisited