From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B10EC1.3030602@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405231329460.25502@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
>
>>I have been researching the 4g patches for kernels.
>>Seems there was a rift between people over this. Is
>>there any plan to resume publishing 4g patches for
>>developing kernels?
>
>
> Quite frankly, a number of us are hoping that we can make them
> unnecessary. The cost of the 4g/4g split is absolutely _huge_ on some
> things, including basic stuff like kernel compiles.
Sorta like I'm hoping that cheap and prevalent 64-bit CPUs make PAE36
and PAE40 on ia32 largely unnecessary. Addressing more memory than 32
bits of memory on a 32-bit CPU always seemed like a hack to me, and a
source of bugs and lost performance...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-23 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-23 19:43 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Phy Prabab
2004-05-23 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 20:51 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-05-24 1:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 2:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-24 2:33 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-05-31 9:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-24 3:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-01 5:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-23 21:55 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-24 7:11 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 7:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-24 7:27 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 12:01 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-24 2:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24 8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24 12:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 19:15 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 19:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 19:50 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 20:10 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-25 21:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-26 10:33 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Ingo Molnar
2004-05-26 12:50 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 12:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 13:00 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 13:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-26 16:41 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-27 13:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-27 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-02 19:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-27 14:18 ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-27 14:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-27 15:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 18:31 ` Guy Sotomayor
2004-05-27 19:26 ` Brian Gerst
2004-06-01 5:56 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 [worst offenders] Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 6:02 ` [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 13:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 13:37 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 19:48 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-01 19:29 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-01 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 13:16 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 14:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 15:04 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 15:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 15:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 16:17 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 17:17 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 17:32 ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 17:46 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 14:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-02 18:20 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 18:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-02 18:58 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-02 19:37 ` viro
2004-06-02 19:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:59 ` viro
2004-06-03 6:55 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-02 19:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-02 23:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-03 7:29 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-01 12:39 ` viro
2004-06-01 13:26 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-07 18:14 ` 4k stacks in 2.6 Timothy Miller
2004-06-08 6:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-08 8:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-26 18:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-26 19:02 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-26 19:25 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-25 21:16 ` 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 21:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 22:09 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 22:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25 23:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 21:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-24 1:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24 1:38 ` Phy Prabab
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2004-05-24 10:27 ` Thomas Glanzmann
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2004-05-25 19:49 Manfred Spraul
2004-05-25 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
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