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[PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size

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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...>, Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, Dave Hansen <dave@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 8:28 pm

A 1G section size makes memory hotplug too coarse in a virtual
environment.  Retuce it by a factor of 2 to 512M.  I would have liked
to make it smaller, but it runs out of reserved flags in the page flags.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h b/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 # ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
-#  define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	30
+#  define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	29
 #  define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS	36
 #  define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	36
 # else


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[PATCH 0 of 4] [RFC] hotplug memory: minor updates, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 8:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] [RFC] hotplug memory: minor updates, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 28, 5:12 am)
Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] [RFC] hotplug memory: minor updates, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 12:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] [RFC] hotplug memory: minor updates, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 28, 6:04 pm)
[PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligned me..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 8:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Thu Mar 27, 9:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Thu Mar 27, 9:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 10:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Thu Mar 27, 10:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 5:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 10:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 12:07 am)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Thu Mar 27, 11:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 12:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Fri Mar 28, 12:39 am)
Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligne..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 2:19 pm)
[PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 8:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Christoph Lameter, (Thu Mar 27, 8:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 10:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Christoph Lameter, (Thu Mar 27, 10:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 2:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Mar 28, 2:05 pm)
[PATCH 4 of 4] paravirt_ops: don't steal memory resources in..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 8:28 pm)
[PATCH 1 of 4] hotplug-memory: add add_memory_resource, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Mar 27, 8:28 pm)
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