Hi Arun These are useful suggestions and we will need a solution that covers all possible scenarios for the page table walker, I have just begun looking at the Ia64 code and so my responses may be slow until I get my head around it. One question I do have is that if we are initialising vhpt in do_boot_cpu() are we only talking about SMP machines here, what about UNI processor machines? Darren On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Arun Sharma wrote: > Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > >I did some hacking over the weekend. VHPT allocation can be done > >from boot processor in function do_boot_cpu() before waking up > >secondary CPUs. Allocation can be easily made numa friendly by > >calling alloc_pages_node (didn't bother to do that for now). > > I was thinking of the hot-plug CPU case, where the allocation has to be > done on the newly added CPU anyway. > > -Arun -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Gelato@UNSW <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Sep 29 19:49:16 2003
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