From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq3ww9ab.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080426185516.GA32364@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:55:16 +0200")
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> Most of the work has been done by Yinghai Lu who has gone through a
> heroic effort to fix all the big-box bugs that he encountered on the
> vanilla Linux kernel on his various up to 256 GB RAM test-systems. Also
> work is included from Ying Huang for those insane SGI UV boxes.
Just to make things clear for the list readers, x86-64 worked fine for years
on 256GB systems.
Many of the problems fixed in this tree are either relatively recent
regressions or have nothing to do with large boxes or 256GB (like the mmconfig
changes)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-26 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 18:55 [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 19:05 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-26 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 19:41 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:08 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem, #2 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 20:55 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem, #3 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 22:48 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem Johannes Weiner
2008-04-27 23:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 0:19 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-28 0:40 ` [patch] mm: node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 1:48 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 16:54 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-28 19:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 19:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-30 10:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-30 16:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-30 17:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-30 20:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 16:49 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-29 14:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30 10:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-28 0:33 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 16:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-26 19:54 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, boot protocol Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 21:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-26 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 21:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 23:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-27 11:21 ` Ian Campbell
2008-04-27 19:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 15:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:24 ` [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes, GART Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 21:55 ` [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, PCI Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 16:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-28 15:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 20:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-28 22:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 23:27 ` [PATCH] x86/pci: remove flag in pci_cfg_space_size_ext Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 16:14 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-29 22:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 22:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-26 22:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-27 3:14 ` [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes Yinghai Lu
2008-04-27 8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-27 8:32 ` [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes II Andi Kleen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87bq3ww9ab.fsf@basil.nowhere.org \
--to=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=yhlu.kernel@gmail.com \
--cc=yinghai.lu@sun.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.