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On Mon, 11 May 2020 21:14:14 +0200
Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> wrote:

> > Or maybe we don't want to defeature this much, or maybe the memory hit
> > from this preallocation will hurt little 2-level 32-bit systems too
> > much.  
> 
> It will certainly make Linux less likely to boot on low-memory x86-32
> systems, whoever will be affected by this.

That may be an issue, as I'm guessing the biggest users of x86-32, is
probably small systems that uses Intel's attempts at the embedded space.

-- Steve