From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Cc: Mark de Vries <m.devries@nl.tiscali.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About highmem in 2.6
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 05:02:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3isidkkr6.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040211212858.2ce1a17d.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> (Bongani Hlope's message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:28:58 +0200")
Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> writes:
> There is nothing wrong with that patch, the problem with Highmem support
> on x86 is that is uses an Intel hack to address the full 1Gb of memory,
> which make memory access a bit slower. The question is, does the 128Mb
> additional memory worth that penalty?
2GB/2GB split doesn't use any Intel hack nor highmem. In fact for
1 GB of RAM I use a little different split which covers the whole RAM
and gives more virtual RAM, something like 1.2/2.8 GB.
--
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-12 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1o6EZ-2zO-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1o7AZ-3PD-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-11 19:13 ` Mark de Vries
2004-02-11 19:28 ` Bongani Hlope
2004-02-12 4:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2004-02-12 16:07 ` Brandon Low
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402120945340.1009@fgevxr.nfculk.yna>
2004-02-14 1:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-02-12 6:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-11 17:47 Luis Miguel García
2004-02-11 18:44 ` Dave McCracken
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