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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:30:51 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes
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> Are you sure? I don't know who had 256g ram with x86-64 that earlier.

IBM Summit. We tested that a couple of years ago.

I think the worst regressions you had to fix came from the vmemmap merge
BTW. It pretty much reintroduced some mistakes in memory placing that
the original code had too and which were fixed back then.

-Andi