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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: clameter@sgi.com
Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, andi@firstfloor.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	chrisw@sous-sol.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, glommer@gmail.com,
	apw@shadowen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:58:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316.135821.125896069.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703161354520.6204@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:13 -0700 (PDT)

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > > Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last 
> > > year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be 
> > > taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that.
> > 
> > Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I
> > like the flexibility it gives me.
> 
> I am not sure what flexibility you are talking about? The modification are 
> to make sparsemem support virtual memmap as one option. See Kame-san's 
> posts. There is no regression here its just cutting out the overhead of 
> sparsmem from within.

I would really appreciate a posting that explains what exactly is
going on being sent to linux-arch, this is the first time I myself am
even aware of this idea and work.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-14  5:08 Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 01/18] toplevel Kconfig changes Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 02/18] x86 Makefile changes Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 03/18] acpi Makefile updates Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 04/18] make the cpu/cpufreq/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 05/18] mv kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 06/18] mv kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.h Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 07/18] mv kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 08/18] create x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 09/18] create x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 10/18] make the kernel Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 11/18] rm include pointer to x86_64 early_printk.c Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 12/18] rm include pointer to x86_64 tsc_sync.c Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 13/18] create x86/lib/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 14/18] rm include pointer to i386 msr-on-cpu.c file Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 15/18] create x86/mm/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 16/18] kconfig for oprofile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 17/18] create x86/oprofile/Makefile Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  5:08 ` [PATCH 18/18] Straight file moves Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 15:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 16:11     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14  8:00 ` [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-14 16:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 10:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14  9:48   ` sujay g
2007-03-14 12:35   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 13:05     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 13:36       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 18:47         ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 18:57           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 12:53   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 13:33     ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 13:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 14:46         ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 16:33           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-14 17:39             ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-14 17:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 16:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 18:15           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-15 16:50             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-15 17:26               ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 15:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 18:09       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 18:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 19:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 20:07             ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 20:19               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 20:34                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 20:11             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 20:21               ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-14 21:34                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-15 15:50       ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-15 15:59         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-15 16:06           ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-15 16:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-15 16:47             ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-15 16:57               ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-15 17:01                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-15 17:21                   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-03-16  4:28               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 11:44                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-16 20:15                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 20:25                     ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-16 20:48                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 20:53                         ` David Miller
2007-03-16 20:56                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 20:58                             ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-16 20:59                         ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-16 21:02                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 21:51                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 14:27                           ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-03-16 20:47                     ` David Miller
2007-03-16 20:52                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 20:55                         ` David Miller
2007-03-16 20:59                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-16 20:59                     ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-18 23:10                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 11:08                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-15 20:02           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-14 15:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 18:40   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-16  4:07 ` Kasper Sandberg

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