From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757975AbYDZWSY (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:18:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755328AbYDZWSS (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:18:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.6]:9965 "EHLO smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755287AbYDZWSR (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:18:17 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Yinghai Lu , jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes From: Andi Kleen References: <20080426185516.GA32364@elte.hu> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:17:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080426185516.GA32364@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:55:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87bq3ww9ab.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2008 22:10:41.0506 (UTC) FILETIME=[5DA0BC20:01C8A7EA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar 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