From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758347AbYC0JWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754755AbYC0JVv (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:21:51 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:52668 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbYC0JVv (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:21:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:21:47 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: Ingo Molnar Cc: ying.huang@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol Message-Id: <20080327042147.15f7ce28.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080327090925.GC30918@elte.hu> References: <1206601743.3067.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080327083221.GD15626@elte.hu> <20080327040216.99dcde7b.pj@sgi.com> <20080327090925.GC30918@elte.hu> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo wrote: > stupidly shortsighted limit ... Eh ... I don't think all that shortsighted ... that 4096 limit has probably been around longer than Linux. Linus or hpa or others would know the history better than I do. > in case anyone knows about any other ... please tell us We're pushing into and finding those limits as best we can, here at SGI ;). You've heard of the canary in the mine shaft, and the elephant in the room. Well, we're the elephant in the canary cage. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214