From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940021AbXGSRHK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:07:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755860AbXGSRGy (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:06:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36124 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758058AbXGSRGx (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:06:53 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [7/48] i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:06:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, lkml@rtr.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070719348.540885000@suse.de> <20070719134836.0C54214E6E@wotan.suse.de> <20070719144631.GA14938@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20070719144631.GA14938@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707191906.49854.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 July 2007 16:46:31 Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:48:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: I didn't. If you guys really want to have a thread to criticize the changelog (which seems quite bogus, after all we're interested in code here, not changelogs) then please at least get your attributions right. Regarding highmem instability: there are still known ways to drive systems with larger highmem ratios to early OOM or deadlock, although they are relatively obscure. -Andi > > > 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 >