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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:56:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Very large memory configurations:   > 16 TB
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To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org


* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:

> Andi put a description of the memory layout in
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt. Seems to indicate that 64 TB was
> considered as a maximum when the memory layout for x86_64 was set up:

Yes, that document was rather incomplete and does not really answer Jack's 
questions, that's why i sent this more complete description originally:

  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/00292.html

a few years ago, answering a similar question.

Thanks,

	Ingo