From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:09:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C9EADD.5000904@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQUckP6m-HTdzdAJt0P_1bok-QHrxqm3RUTx=v_C=ufFCg@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/25/2013 12:03 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> It is worth experimenting with but the big question would be,
>> if it still avoids the very expensive "memmap_init_zone" and
>> it's sub-functions using huge expanses of memory. I'll do some
>> experimenting as soon as I can. Our 32TB system is being
>> brought back to 16TB (we found a number of problems as we
>> get closer and closer to the 64TB limit), but that's still
>> a significant size.
>
> According to Intel SDM, CPU could support 52bits physical addressing.
>
> So how linux kernel will handle it? as we only have 48bits virtual addressing.
>
The Linux kernel will not support more than V-2 bits of physical address
space for any number V of virtual address bits.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-25 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 16:25 [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 16:25 ` [RFC 1/2] x86_64, mm: Delay initializing large portion " Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-25 4:14 ` Rob Landley
2013-06-21 16:25 ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-23 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-23 9:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-24 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-24 20:36 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-25 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-25 15:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 17:19 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 17:22 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:51 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26 9:22 ` [RFC] Transparent on-demand memory setup initialization embedded in the (GFP) buddy allocator Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 13:28 ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-26 13:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 15:02 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 16:15 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26 12:14 ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 14:49 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-26 15:20 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 15:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-26 16:11 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-26 16:07 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 16:51 ` [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory Greg KH
2013-06-21 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 17:18 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 20:05 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 20:33 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 21:36 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 21:07 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 18:50 ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 19:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 19:19 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 20:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 20:40 ` Nathan Zimmer
2013-06-21 21:30 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-22 0:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 17:35 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:40 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 18:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 18:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-25 18:58 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-25 19:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-06-25 19:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-27 6:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-27 11:05 ` Robin Holt
2013-06-27 15:50 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-26 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-25 18:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-25 18:42 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 18:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 18:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-21 19:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-06-21 21:28 ` Mike Travis
2013-06-21 21:19 ` Mike Travis
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