From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261498AbUDOTNQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261752AbUDOTNQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:13:16 -0400 Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.181]:57618 "EHLO smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261498AbUDOTNO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:13:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] highpmd for arch i386 PAE From: Antony Suter To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: List LKML In-Reply-To: <20040415182815.GB743@holomorphy.com> References: <1082048738.8544.25.camel@hikaru.lan> <20040415182815.GB743@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-urd2nPslC5uv948CLKBL" Message-Id: <1082056377.8544.32.camel@hikaru.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:12:57 +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-urd2nPslC5uv948CLKBL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 04:28, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:05:38AM +1000, Antony Suter wrote: > > This patch places middle level pagetables into highmem, on PAE machines= . > > It is relevant to arch/i386 machines running many processes on 4 to 64 > > GB of RAM. > > This is simply a resync to the current kernel of a patch released by > > William Lee Irwin III about 4 months ago. WLI's comments on the patch > > are: >=20 > I'll be damned. This is one of the many pieces people never said much > about. Looks relatively thorough. >=20 > I did a few things to keep pmd caching around that look like they got > dropped, but I suppose for a standalone mainline port that's the only > option. Did you have a more recent version than the one from linux-2.6.0-test11-wli-1.tar.bz2 ? Perhaps patch-2.6.0-test11-wli-3.bz2 included it, but you didn't break them out into a tarball? > I'm really astounded ppl are going through the trouble of resurrecting > all this stuff. I suppose that means it was valuable to someone. Well i'm starting at number 01... :) --=20 - Antony Suter (suterant users sourceforge net) "Bonta" - "...through shadows falling, out of memory and time..." --=-urd2nPslC5uv948CLKBL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAft64Zu6XKGV+xxoRAhYbAJ0STgYglu0E+zYpxK5LDbJmAiajzgCfU6tS jWz7ZKQxUDJEXni6e2R13XE= =Wktc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-urd2nPslC5uv948CLKBL--