Re: [Xen-devel] virtual frame_table?

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/08/2009 22:20, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Easily fixed if there's a reason to. Not really many x86 systems have
discontiguous memory.

 K.



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