From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, x86team <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:03:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091108180335.GA17985@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091108173650.GF25940@lenovo>
* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Maciej W. Rozycki - Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:28:05PM +0000]
> | On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> |
> | > The whole page is reserved for IO-APIC fixmap
> | > due to non-cacheable requirement. So lets note
> | > this explicitly instead of playing with numbers.
> | >
> | > CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> | > CC: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
> | > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> | > ---
> |
> | Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> |
> | Is PAGE_SIZE still always 4kB for the x86 these days? If so, then your
> | change makes sense to me.
>
> Yeah, as far as I know. I didn't find any sign if we going to change
> PAGE_SHIFT.
Not in the next 10-20 years or so. (and any prediction beyond that is
pointless i suspect)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-08 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-08 15:53 [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-08 16:09 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-08 17:28 ` [PATCH -tip] x86,apic: " Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-11-08 17:36 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-08 18:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-09 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 0:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-11-10 4:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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