Re: [announce, patch] 4G/4G split on x86, 64 GB RAM (and more) support

William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-09T01:29:21Z

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:45:52AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The patch is orthogonal to wli's pgcl patch - both patches try to achieve
> the same, with different methods. I can very well imagine workloads where
> we want to have the combination of the two patches.

Well, your patch does have the advantage of not being a "break all
drivers" affair.

Also, even though pgcl scales "perfectly" wrt. highmem (nm the code
being a train wreck), the raw capacity increase is needed. There are
enough other reasons to go through with ABI-preserving page clustering
that they're not really in competition with each other.

Looks good to me. I'll spin it up tonight.

-- wli