From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2G memory split
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:25:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601111125.53357.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601102141570.16049@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:42 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >2G/2G is not the only viable alternative. On my 1GB x86 box I'm
> >using "lowmem1g" patches for both 2.4 and 2.6, which results in
> >2.75G for user-space. I'm sure others have other preferences.
> >Any standard option for this should either have several hard-coded
> >alternatives, or should support arbitrary values (within reason).
> >
> >(See http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/*/patch-i386-lowmem1g-*
> >if you're interested.)
>
> Hm, Con Kolivas also provided a lowmem1g patch in his set...
I was under the impression that breaking the ABI was a nono and such a patch
would never be considered for mainline. Guess I was wrong. However mine only
offered a split suitable for 1GB of ram whereas this is offering all that and
steak knives too.
Cheers,
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 0:25 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
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 [this message]
2006-01-10 14:12 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 14:22 ` Jens Axboe
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