Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB?

David Mosberger
2002-03-06T02:05:08Z

>>>>> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:52:38 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

DaveM> So when someone tells me "on ia64, with 8gb ram, my eepro100
DaveM> card gets really crap performance under any load" I will
DaveM> explain the above to them and let them know that the
DaveM> performance sucks because the ia64 folks refuse to integrate
DaveM> this bug fix :-)

I think you're ignoring disk I/O.

I'm not terribly interested in revisiting this topic. If you care,
take it up with the folks that build the chips without hardware I/O
TLB. They are the ones with the vested interest. ;-)

--david