linux/mm
Bob Picco 802f192e4a [PATCH] SPARSEMEM EXTREME
A new option for SPARSEMEM is ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME.  Architecture
platforms with a very sparse physical address space would likely want to
select this option.  For those architecture platforms that don't select the
option, the code generated is equivalent to SPARSEMEM currently in -mm.
I'll be posting a patch on ia64 ml which uses this new SPARSEMEM feature.

ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME makes mem_section a one dimensional array of
pointers to mem_sections.  This two level layout scheme is able to achieve
smaller memory requirements for SPARSEMEM with the tradeoff of an
additional shift and load when fetching the memory section.  The current
SPARSEMEM -mm implementation is a one dimensional array of mem_sections
which is the default SPARSEMEM configuration.  The patch attempts isolates
the implementation details of the physical layout of the sparsemem section
array.

ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME depends on 64BIT and is by default boolean false.

I've boot tested under aim load ia64 configured for ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME.
 I've also boot tested a 4 way Opteron machine with !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
and tested with aim.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:38 -07:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code 2005-06-25 16:25:02 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] execute-in-place fixes 2005-07-15 09:54:50 -07:00
filemap.c [PATCH] fix for generic_file_write iov problem 2005-06-25 16:24:39 -07:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
highmem.c [PATCH] count bounce buffer pages in vmstat 2005-05-01 08:58:37 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] Fix hugepage crash on failing mmap() 2005-08-05 12:22:37 -07:00
internal.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] SPARSEMEM EXTREME 2005-09-05 00:05:38 -07:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise() does not always return -EBADF on non-file mapped area 2005-07-27 16:25:54 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] xip: fs/mm: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] Lazy page table copies in fork() 2005-08-29 17:25:04 -07:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] sys_set_mempolicy() doesnt check if mode < 0 2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
mempool.c [PATCH] propagate __nocast annotations 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mmap.c [PATCH] __vm_enough_memory() signedness fix 2005-08-04 21:43:14 -07:00
mprotect.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mremap.c [PATCH] fix VmSize and VmData after mremap 2005-08-04 13:11:15 -07:00
msync.c [PATCH] msync: check pte dirty earlier 2005-06-21 18:46:21 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] __vm_enough_memory() signedness fix 2005-08-04 21:43:14 -07:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] mm: quieten OOM killer noise 2005-07-07 18:23:36 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Fix NUMA node sizing in nr_free_zone_pages 2005-07-30 10:14:46 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: kill config_pm_disk 2005-06-25 16:24:32 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] rename wakeup_bdflush to wakeup_pdflush 2005-06-28 21:20:31 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing 2005-06-25 17:10:13 -07:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
rmap.c [PATCH] xip: fs/mm: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
shmem.c Fix nasty ncpfs symlink handling bug. 2005-08-19 18:02:56 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] propagate __nocast annotations 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
sparse.c [PATCH] SPARSEMEM EXTREME 2005-09-05 00:05:38 -07:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] mm: use __GFP_NOMEMALLOC 2005-05-01 08:58:37 -07:00
swap.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] can_share_swap_page: use page_mapcount 2005-06-21 18:46:21 -07:00
thrash.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
truncate.c [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions 2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] x86_64: Fixed guard page handling again in iounmap 2005-05-20 15:48:20 -07:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] rename wakeup_bdflush to wakeup_pdflush 2005-06-28 21:20:31 -07:00