x86_64 make SPARSE_VIRTUAL the default x86_64 is using 2M page table entries to map its 1-1 kernel space. We implement the virtual memmap also using 2M page table entries. So there is no difference at all to FLATMEM. Both schemes require a page table and a TLB. Thus the SPARSEMEM becomes the most efficient way of handling virt_to_page, pfn_to_page and friends for UP, SMP and NUMA. So change the Kconfig for x86_64 to make SPARSE_VIRTUAL the default and switch off all other memory models. Oh. And PFN_TO_PAGE used to be out of line. Since it is now so simple switch it back to inline. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/x86_64/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2.orig/arch/x86_64/Kconfig 2007-03-31 23:47:58.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/x86_64/Kconfig 2007-03-31 23:48:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -380,25 +380,29 @@ config NUMA_EMU number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE - bool - depends on NUMA - default y + def_bool n config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT - def_bool y - depends on NUMA + def_bool n config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE def_bool y - depends on (NUMA || EXPERIMENTAL) + +config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL + def_bool y + +config ARCH_SPARSE_VIRTUAL + def_bool y + +config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL + def_bool n config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE def_bool y depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE - def_bool y - depends on !NUMA + def_bool n source "mm/Kconfig" @@ -411,8 +415,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID depends on NUMA config OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE - def_bool y - depends on DISCONTIGMEM + def_bool n config NR_CPUS int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)" Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/include/asm-x86_64/page.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2.orig/include/asm-x86_64/page.h 2007-03-31 23:47:58.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/include/asm-x86_64/page.h 2007-03-31 23:48:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ typedef struct { unsigned long pgprot; } VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC) #define __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA 1 +#define vmemmap ((struct page *)0xffffe20000000000UL) #include #include