From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>,
Henti Smith <bain@tcsn.co.za>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:52:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EAD5C44.103@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030428151648.GF4525@Wotan.suse.de
Andi Kleen wrote:
>>and 64GB is available from vendors who are willing to apply the pgcl
>>patch.
>
> Nobody is doing that. pgcl is 2.5 only and seems to be still quite instable.
> Also it's extremly intrusive.
Bill will probably wake up any time now and chime in, but don't forget
all of the drivers.
# grep -r PAGE_SIZE drivers/ | wc -l
893
Each one of those needs to be audited before pgcl is acceptable to a
wide audience. We've already seen plenty of stuff that breaks. ext2/3
look to be all right, but I know that JFS is broken.
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-28 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-24 18:05 maximum possible memory limit Henti Smith
2003-04-24 18:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-26 7:11 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-04-28 13:08 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 14:10 ` [Lse-tech] " Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 15:11 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 15:16 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 16:52 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2003-04-28 16:58 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-28 22:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 23:50 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-29 0:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-29 0:06 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-29 0:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-29 4:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 16:45 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-28 16:57 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 17:13 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 17:53 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-28 18:31 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-04-28 19:05 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-28 17:16 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-28 17:36 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 17:44 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 18:57 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-04-28 17:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 17:26 ` Dave Hansen
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