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 15:29:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:29:56 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-046.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.46]:23969 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:28:56 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?] Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 21:27:00 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020502180632.I11414@dualathlon.random> <20020502204136.M11414@dualathlon.random> <20020502191903.GL32767@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 02 May 2002 21:19, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:41:36PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Dropping the loop when discontigmem is enabled is much more interesting > > optimization of course. > > Andrea > > Absolutely; I'd be very supportive of improvements for this case as well. > Many of the systems with the need for discontiguous memory support will > also benefit from parallelizations or other methods of avoiding references > to remote nodes/zones or iterations over all nodes/zones. Which loop in which function are we talking about? -- Daniel