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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: <carlson@sibyte.com>, "Matthew Dharm" <mdharm@momenco.com>,
	<linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple processor support?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010324022307.B15044@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b801c0b3fb$1770b740$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Well, one reason might be memory footprint...

As of now the memory footprint of the kernel is large but userspace which
is all 32-bit software has unchanged footprint.  I've got plans for 2.5
to reduce the memory footprint of the kernel by introducing a 2-level
pagetable.

  Ralf

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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: carlson@sibyte.com, Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Multiple processor support?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010324022307.B15044@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010324012307.04RwwNoLDjtwJuEda5qaivp_QMTG49EQnbka1cnc-KQ@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b801c0b3fb$1770b740$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Well, one reason might be memory footprint...

As of now the memory footprint of the kernel is large but userspace which
is all 32-bit software has unchanged footprint.  I've got plans for 2.5
to reduce the memory footprint of the kernel by introducing a 2-level
pagetable.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-24  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-23 22:53 Multiple processor support? Matthew Dharm
2001-03-23 22:58 ` Justin Carlson
2001-03-24  0:01   ` Matthew Dharm
2001-03-24  0:01     ` Matthew Dharm
2001-03-24  0:08     ` Justin Carlson
2001-03-24  0:08       ` Justin Carlson
2001-03-24  0:29       ` Keith M Wesolowski
2001-03-24  0:40       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-03-24  0:40         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-03-24  1:23         ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-03-24  1:23           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-03-26 19:20         ` Jun Sun
2001-03-29  9:16           ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-03-29  9:16             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-03-24  0:13     ` Joe George

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