From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:12:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807041239.GB15685@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0208070059380.23404-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:50:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> For all workloads we care about, yes.
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Not the university workload. NFI what my employer thinks of it, but I
>> care about it for the sake of correctness in all cases.
>> Lynch me now.
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:00:28AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I agree with you, but you'll also have to confess that keeping
> pagetables around at all (whether it's in highmem or not) will
> potentially be a disaster for the university workload.
> regards,
> Rik
That's pretty much the point of it, yes.
... coincidentally, this is also needed to properly handle the vastness
of 64-bit address spaces in comparison to physical memory.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 23:15 William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 0:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 1:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 4:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 4:12 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-08-07 1:07 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-08-07 1:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 2:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 18:43 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-08-08 14:51 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 18:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-08 14:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-09 14:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-09 14:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 4:05 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 4:18 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-08-07 5:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
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