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[Xen-devel] virtual frame_table?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] virtual frame_table?
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:20:08 -0600
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On ia64 we had a virtual frame_table to allow for better handling of
sparse memory configs.  Has x86 considered anything similar?  I see that
init_frametable() is currently allocating 32bytes per page for
everything up to max_page.  This can consume a pretty significant chunk
of memory if nodes are discontiguous.  Anyone motivated to fix it?
Thanks,

Alex


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