Re: Memory model

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:

> Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390)
> currently uses a memory model which is not set as default.  ia64 defines
> DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM.

afais fedora defaults to x86_64 SPARSEMEM

also we had this as default since allmost ever,
you'll only find *one* changelog entry by fs for a bootup fixup change.
 
> How should we handle this as this may have large speed impacts?

keep it unless a mm guru comes with good arg or better benchmarks.
 

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maks