From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:02:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:02:08 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:46806 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:02:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:00:47 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Daniel Phillips , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?] Message-ID: <20020502160047.GG32767@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrea Arcangeli , Daniel Phillips , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020426192711.D18350@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20020502034318.T11414@dualathlon.random> <20020502153402.A11414@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:34:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > alpha is the same as mips I think. sparc would be the same too if > there's any discontigmem sparc. Dunno of arm. We're talking about > architectures needing discontigmem, 99% percent of users doesn't need > discontigmem in the first place, you never need discontigmem in x86 and > even in new-numa you don't need discontigmem, you want to pass through > discontigmem only to get the numa topology description that the current > discontigmem provides via the pgdat. Any chance you could name a few of these mysterious new NUMA machines? Thanks, Bill