From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PS3_USE_LPAR_ADDR dramically increases boot time
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:14:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706182314.26918.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4482BED-242B-42AD-96FF-3CB14B6BC5BE@watson.ibm.com>
On Monday 18 June 2007, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
>=20
> The following change set:
> =A0 =A0http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/paulus/=20
> powerpc.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3D261efc3f178c8c5b55d76208aee1f39ce247f723
>=20
> setting CONFIG_PS3_USE_LPAR_ADDR (which is the default for PS3) =A0
> changes increases MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS =A0from 44 to 47 which makes the =A0
> array 8 time bigger and takes way longer for sparse_init() to run on =A0
> simulator.
>=20
> Is this really the right approach?
> Cell is actually 42 so could not the special address space be 43 or 44?
Unfortunately, the hypervisor chooses the addresses where things get
mapped, and since they are guest-real, there is no hard limit where
the hypervisor puts them, like the 42 bit limit on bare metal.
I guess this will improve if we get virt_mem_map support on powerpc,
but I'm not sure if that's currently being worked on.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-18 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-18 19:45 CONFIG_PS3_USE_LPAR_ADDR dramically increases boot time Jimi Xenidis
2007-06-18 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-06-18 21:27 ` Jimi Xenidis
2007-06-18 23:12 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-18 23:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-18 23:55 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-19 0:13 ` Jimi Xenidis
2007-06-19 1:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-23 18:39 ` Geoff Levand
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