From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266498AbUBLQJq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:09:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266501AbUBLQJq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:09:46 -0500 Received: from node-402418b2.mdw.onnet.us.uu.net ([64.36.24.178]:40946 "EHLO found.lostlogicx.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266498AbUBLQJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:09:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:07:46 -0600 From: Brandon Low To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: About highmem in 2.6 Message-ID: <20040212160746.GB7002@lostlogicx.com> References: <1o6EZ-2zO-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <1o7AZ-3PD-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <402A7EC6.7010003@nl.tiscali.com> <20040211212858.2ce1a17d.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux found.lostlogicx.com 2.6.1-mm2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 02/12/04 at 05:02:53 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Bongani Hlope 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. Any chance of me getting a copy of the patch which allows the finer grained tuning of the kernel/user split? Thanks. Brandon Low > -- > Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/