Christoph Lameter wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 16:24 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> This overhead can be avoided by configuring sparsemem to use a
virtual vmemmap
>> (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP). In that case it can be used for non
NUMA since the
>> overhead is less than even FLATMEM.
>
> Is that all it takes these days, or do you need some other arch-specific
> code to help out?
Some information is in mm/sparse-vmemmap.c. Simplest configuration is
to use
vmalloc for the populate function. Otherwise the arch can do what it
wants to
reduce the overhead of virtual mappings (in the x86 case we use a 2M TLB
entry, and since 2M TLBs are also used for the 1-1 physical mapping the
overhead is the same as for 1-1 mappings).
Well, I finally gotten around to turning the vmemmap on for our
sparsemem on Mips.
I have a question about what you said above and how that applies to mips.
you said that the simplest configuration is to use vmalloc for the
populate function.
could you expand on that? (i didn't see that the populate function used
vmalloc or maybe
we are talking about a different populate function).
I've noticed that from looking at the kernel, only 64 bit processors or
at least processors
that use a 3 level page table have the vmemmap_populate() function
implemented.
in looking at the function vmemmap_populate_basepages() (called by most
vmemmap_populate funcs)
it seems to create a 3 level
page table. not sure what my question here is, but maybe what do I have
to do to make
this work w/ mips which i understand uses only 2 levels can I just take
out the part of
the function that sets up the middle level table?
Has anyone done this on mips?
mike
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