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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:32:51 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCh] x86: overmapped fix when 4K pages on tail - 64bit
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> > with this patch, my 256g system still use gbpages for 1g-3g, 4g-256g
> 
> 256GB certainly qualifies as "large system". But as Linus always says: 
> Linux is not for servers only. Ignoring the small systems makes you 
> look bad.

Yinghai is hard at work fixing long-time crappiness of the x86 memory 
setup code on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 alike. Contrary to your suggestion 
he has not been "ignoring small systems" in any way - he has done the 
exact opposite: Yinghai has fixed a ton of small-system bugs and 
usability annoyances along the way.

Your attempt trying to cast this much-needed cleanup, fixing and 
robustization effort into a negative light is as pityful as it is wrong.

	Ingo