Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6

Phy Prabab
2004-05-23T21:55:24Z

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So do I understand this correctly, in 2.6.7(+) it will
no longer be necessary to have the 4g patches? I will
be able to get 4g/process with the going forward
kernels?

Thank you for your time.
Phy

--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
> >
> > I have been researching the 4g patches for
> kernels.
> > Seems there was a rift between people over this.
> Is
> > there any plan to resume publishing 4g patches for
> > developing kernels?
>
> Quite frankly, a number of us are hoping that we can
> make them
> unnecessary. The cost of the 4g/4g split is
> absolutely _huge_ on some
> things, including basic stuff like kernel compiles.
>
> The only valid reason for the 4g split is that the
> VM doesn't always
> behave well with huge amounts of highmem. The
> anonvma stuff in 2.6.7-pre1
> is hoped to make that much less of an issue.
>
> Personally, if we never need to merge 4g for real,
> I'll be really really
> happy. I see it as a huge ugly hack.
>
> Linus

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