From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:13 -0700 (PDT)

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > > Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last 
> > > year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be 
> > > taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that.
> > 
> > Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I
> > like the flexibility it gives me.
> 
> I am not sure what flexibility you are talking about? The modification are 
> to make sparsemem support virtual memmap as one option. See Kame-san's 
> posts. There is no regression here its just cutting out the overhead of 
> sparsmem from within.

I would really appreciate a posting that explains what exactly is
going on being sent to linux-arch, this is the first time I myself am
even aware of this idea and work.

Thanks.
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