From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.5.46-mm1
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:20:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <192390000.1036610445@baldur.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021106171249.GB29935@stingr.net>
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--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:12:50 +0300 Paul P Komkoff Jr
<i@stingr.net> wrote:
> Why sharepte is dependent on highmem now ?
It's not supposed to be. I'm guessing it's a conversion error in the move
to Kconfig. A patch to fix it is attached.
> I thought I will benefit from it on forkloads on lowmem too ...
It's definitely a benefit for all sizes of memory.
Dave McCracken
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Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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--- 2.5.46-mm1/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 13:17:20.000000000 -0600
+++ 2.5.46-mm1-shsent/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 11:38:50.000000000 -0600
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@
config SHAREPTE
bool "Share 3rd-level pagetables between processes"
- depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G
help
Normally each address space has its own complete page table for all
its mappings. This can mean many mappings of a set of shared data
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-06 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 8:34 2.5.46-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 8:34 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 13:29 ` 2.5.46-mm1 3 uninitialized timers during boot, ipv6 related? Helge Hafting
2002-11-06 16:42 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-11-06 16:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 17:12 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-11-06 17:24 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 19:20 ` Dave McCracken [this message]
2002-11-07 16:41 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-07 16:41 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-07 16:51 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-07 16:51 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-07 17:13 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-11-07 17:13 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Andrew Morton
2002-11-07 18:45 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-07 18:45 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-07 19:22 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-07 19:22 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-07 19:05 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-07 19:05 ` 2.5.46-mm1 Bill Davidsen
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