Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 4 authors, 2018-12-17

Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement sparsemem

From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Date: 2018-12-17 16:51:02
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On 2018-12-17 7:59 a.m., Nick Kossifidis wrote:
Having memory blocks of a minimum size of 1GB doesn't make much sense. 
It makes it harder to implement hotplug on top of this since we'll only 
able to add/remove 1GB at a time. ARM used to do the same and they 
switched to 27bits (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9172845/), ARM64 
still uses 1GB, x86 also uses 27bits and most archs also use something 
below 30. I believe we should go for 27bits as well or even better have 
this as a compile time option.
Thanks, that makes sense. I'll make the change for the next time we submit.
BTW memblocks_present is on master now (got merged 3 days ago).
Great! We'll send an updated patch set after the merge window.

Logan

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