From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: ying.huang@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:21:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080327042147.15f7ce28.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327090925.GC30918@elte.hu>
Ingo wrote:
> stupidly shortsighted limit ...
Eh ... I don't think all that shortsighted ... that 4096 limit has
probably been around longer than Linux. Linus or hpa or others would
know the history better than I do.
> in case anyone knows about any other ... please tell us
We're pushing into and finding those limits as best we can, here at
SGI ;). You've heard of the canary in the mine shaft, and the elephant
in the room. Well, we're the elephant in the canary cage.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.940.382.4214
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 7:09 [PATCH -mm 0/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol Huang, Ying
2008-03-27 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-27 9:02 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-27 9:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-27 9:21 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-03-27 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-27 9:25 ` Huang, Ying
2008-03-27 9:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-27 16:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
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