Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] sparsemem/discontig?

[Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>]

Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Changing the physical loading address shouldn't that hard.
>
> I'd suggest you *not* working on relocation yet.

Hi Tristan,

Changing the address for loading works, except that our machines are not
all the same and I'd have to set it individually for each one. I'd
rather start looking at the relocation so we get an infrastructure for
that sorted.

> According to page_alloc.c, the allocator needs a bitmap for memory.  This 
> bitmap is not sparse.  I suppose this is a major issue for Altix to be fixed.

Yup, I hit that one too, takes forever to boot because of this :(

Cheers,
Jes

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