Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-06T22:27:41Z

On 03/06/2013 02:04 PM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>>
>> Sigh. This is why "keep the page tables together" is fundamentally the
>> wrong strategy.
>>
>> 8M means that we won't even be able to boot on machines with less than
>> 16M or so of RAM... I'm not sure if anyone still cares, but that is a
>> pretty aggressive heuristic.
>
> Maybe this should be a config option, given the ad-hoc nature of the
> chosen value? Anyway, the patch works.
>

Can we make a sensible argument for what the value *needs* to be? 2M at
least makes a modicum of sense. Either way, it's clear we still have
plenty of cleaning up to do...

-hpa