From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Gerrit Huizenga <gerrit@us.ibm.com>,
"M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>,
Harald Holzer <harald.holzer@eunet.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:23:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020106152347.E27926@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020106032030.A27926@redhat.com> <E16NFxv-0005e4-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16NFxv-0005e4-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:07PM +0000
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> You don't neccessarily need PSE. Migrating to an option to support > 4K
> _virtual_ page size is more flexible for x86, although it would need
> glibc getpagesize() fixing I think, and might mean a few apps wouldnt
> run in that configuration.
Perhaps, but if the majority of people using 64GB of ram are served well
by PSE, then it's worth getting that 5% of performance back.
-ben
--
Fish.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-06 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-29 18:18 i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ? Harald Holzer
2001-12-29 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 21:24 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-30 0:25 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-30 2:14 ` Harald Holzer
2001-12-30 2:33 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-01-01 18:15 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-01-01 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-01 19:02 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-01-02 1:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-02 21:17 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-01-06 8:20 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-06 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-06 20:23 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-01-06 23:37 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-01-07 0:29 ` The COUGAR Project M. Edward Borasky
2002-01-07 2:18 ` i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ? Marvin Justice
2002-01-07 2:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-01-07 4:40 ` T. A.
2002-01-07 16:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-02 17:30 ` Timothy D. Witham
[not found] ` <1009994687.12942.14.camel@hh2.hhhome.at>
[not found] ` <1009995669.1253.17.camel@wookie-laptop.pdx.osdl.net>
2002-01-02 23:50 ` Harald Holzer
2002-01-03 0:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-03 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-04 12:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-04 12:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-03 0:17 ` Mark Zealey
2002-01-03 13:28 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-03 14:33 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-03 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-03 15:15 ` Anton Blanchard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-29 19:25 Dieter Nützel
2002-01-06 18:39 Daniel Freedman
2002-01-06 18:59 ` Marvin Justice
2002-01-06 19:45 ` Daniel Freedman
2002-01-06 20:15 ` Marvin Justice
2002-01-07 5:17 ` Daniel Freedman
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