From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755566Ab1JQKli (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:41:38 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:37064 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755476Ab1JQKkf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:40:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Simon Kirby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Jones , Martin Schwidefsky Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:40:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20111007070842.GA27555@hostway.ca> <20111007174848.GA11011@hostway.ca> <1318010515.398.8.camel@twins> <20111008005035.GC22843@hostway.ca> <1318060551.8395.0.camel@twins> <20111012213555.GC24461@hostway.ca> <20111013232521.GA5654@hostway.ca> <20111017045806.GA11561@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1318848001.6594.45.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 11:03 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > That's not a micro optimization, it's a massive performance hit if you > force those 32bit archs to do 64/32 all over the place. > Linus could just say he doesn't care about 32bit and everybody sane should just get a 64bit machine.. but I suspect that's a few more years. Although I hope not too long, even my phone could do with more than 2G of memory.