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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-07-09T07:08:37Z

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i'm pleased to announce the first public release of the "4GB/4GB VM split"
> patch, for the 2.5.74 Linux kernel:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/4g-patches/4g-2.5.74-F8
>
> The 4G/4G split feature is primarily intended for large-RAM x86 systems,
> which want to (or have to) get more kernel/user VM, at the expense of
> per-syscall TLB-flush overhead.

Great! Another enterprise feature stolen from SCO? :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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