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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
	"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:19:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489B9F17.6000701@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218158045.20178.394.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> 
> Using my interplanetary ideas, linking the fixmap at runtime would allow
> optimal placement of the fixmap, any hypervisor areas, vmalloc, and
> pkmap space.  That might allow one to increase the amount of lowmem
> available for direct mapping depending on some platform variables such
> as hypervisor reserved space, physical memory size, APIC present.. those
> aren't known until boot time.  Actually, NCPUs is a good one, since we
> require atomic kmap space dependent on NCPUs, which could be given back
> to linear memory map.
> 
> That might actually be more worthwhile than link time fixed addresses.
> 

Yeah, but that's a huge project.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 19:12 [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc Alok Kataria
2008-08-07 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 21:27   ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:34     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 21:42       ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 21:55           ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 22:17             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 22:38               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-07 22:58                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:08                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-07 23:12                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:26                     ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 23:49                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:23               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 19:15           ` Alok Kataria
2008-08-08 22:23             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:21     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:46         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08  0:01             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-08  0:11               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08  0:10             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08  0:13               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08  0:23                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08  0:29                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08  6:10                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 16:13                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08  1:14               ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-08  1:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-08  1:28                   ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:41   ` Alok Kataria

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