From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937340AbXGSOqt (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753786AbXGSOqk (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37831 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751521AbXGSOqi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:31 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, lkml@rtr.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [7/48] i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G Message-ID: <20070719144631.GA14938@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , wli@holomorphy.com, lkml@rtr.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070719348.540885000@suse.de> <20070719134836.0C54214E6E@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719134836.0C54214E6E@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:48:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Some users may want NX > or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of > highmem. NX is still going to need the larger PTEs, so I don't see how this change removes any 'overhead' or potential 'instability'. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the change, but this part of the changelog seems to be false advertising. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk