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From: "Mike Fedyk" <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: <Administrator@smtp.paston.co.uk>
Cc: <colpatch@us.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Ensure pfn_to_nid() is always defined for i386
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:45:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03d601c415a4$df99b970$d100000a@sbs2003.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1814780000.1072139199@flay>

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:26:40PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> + * for now assume that 64Gb is max amount of RAM for whole system
> + *    64Gb / 4096bytes/page = 16777216 pages
> + */
> +#define MAX_NR_PAGES 16777216
> +#define MAX_ELEMENTS 256
> +#define PAGES_PER_ELEMENT (MAX_NR_PAGES/MAX_ELEMENTS)

Why not do the calculation in the define, and use PAGE_SIZE?

If PAGE_SIZE isn't 4k will it break the rest of this code, or will the
calculations make sence with larger PAGE_SIZE?

Might as well make it easier to go in the direction of variable PAGE_SIZE
instead of keeping the assumption.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-29 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-22 19:44 [TRIVIAL PATCH] Ensure pfn_to_nid() is always defined for i386 Matthew Dobson
2003-12-23  0:26 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-05 21:35   ` Matthew Dobson
2004-01-05 22:53   ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-05 23:15     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-29 15:45     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-29 15:45   ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-29 15:45   ` Mike Fedyk [this message]

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