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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2G memory split
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:44:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060110144412.GA9295@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060110143931.GM3389@suse.de>


* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:

> +	  Select the wanted split between kernel and user memory.
> +
> +	  If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
> +	  physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
> +	  as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
> +	  than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.

make it _ALOT_ more clear that mere mortals should not touch this 
option! Also, you do not mention the userspace-VM fragmentation issues.  
Plus, if a user uses a 2G/2G split with more than 2G of RAM, the kernel 
should print a warning that it's running with a non-default split. Do 
the same if the user uses a non-default split with less than 960MB of 
RAM.

> +
> +	  Note that selecting anything but the default 3G/1G split will make
> +	  your kernel incompatible with binary only modules.

it's not 'will' but 'may', and even then, tons of .config things can 
break bin-only modules, so just skip this paragraph.

looks good to me otherwise, with the text fixes it's:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-10 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-10 12:58 2G memory split Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 13:37   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:43     ` Byron Stanoszek
2006-01-10 13:47       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:39       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:44         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-01-10 15:03           ` [PATCH] Address space split configuration Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 15:11             ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 15:24             ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 16:14         ` 2G memory split Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:40           ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 16:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 18:33               ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 17:07           ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 17:32             ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:37               ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:58                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:16                   ` [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:37                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:27                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11  1:13                     ` J.A. Magallon
2006-01-11 10:15                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11 16:00                     ` Greg Norris
2006-01-11 17:13                       ` Mark Lord
2006-01-11 17:44                         ` Greg Norris
2006-02-05 18:42                         ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-01 22:23                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-02 11:04                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-02 20:55                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-03 22:39                           ` Mark Lord
2006-02-04 10:23                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-04 11:06                               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 10:36                             ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-04 11:05                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 13:57                               ` Mark Lord
2006-02-05 15:32                                 ` J.A. Magallon
2006-02-05 15:38                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-05 21:14                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 21:19                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 14:56                                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-07  0:41                                       ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-07  2:51                                         ` Mark Rustad
2006-02-07  9:38                                         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-07 12:19                                           ` RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 14:05                                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-07 14:42                                               ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 16:06                                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 17:48             ` 2G memory split Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 16:30               ` [PATCH] " Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:50                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-10 17:13                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:42               ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:17                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 20:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11  8:39                     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-11 10:06                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 18:14           ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:56               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 17:01                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:45                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:46                 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:58                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:17                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 20:55                 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-10 19:12                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 21:02                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 19:30                       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:39               ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:55               ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 19:01                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:05                   ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 17:07         ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-04-10 14:11           ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-10 14:39             ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:28         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 13:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 13:54   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:09     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-10 14:21       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:25       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:42   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11  0:25     ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-10 14:12 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 14:22   ` Jens Axboe

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