From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB
Date: 11 Jan 2002 23:32:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1ooql$ili$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020112004528.A159@earthlink.net>
Followup to: <20020112004528.A159@earthlink.net>
By author: rwhron@earthlink.net
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> --- linux.aa2/arch/i386/config.in Fri Jan 11 20:57:58 2002
> +++ linux/arch/i386/config.in Fri Jan 11 22:20:32 2002
> @@ -169,7 +169,11 @@
> if [ "$CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G" = "y" ]; then
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_PAE y
> else
> - bool '3.5GB user address space' CONFIG_05GB
> + choice 'Maximum Virtual Memory' \
> + "3GB CONFIG_1GB \
> + 2GB CONFIG_2GB \
> + 1GB CONFIG_3GB \
> + 05GB CONFIG_05GB" 3GB
> fi
Calling this "Maximum Virtual Memory" is misleading at best. This is
best described as "kernel:user split" (3:1, 2:2, 1:3, 3.5:0.5);
"maximum virtual memory" sounds to me a lot like the opposite of what
your parameter is.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-12 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 5:45 [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB rwhron
2002-01-12 7:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-12 13:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 17:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-12 17:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 18:28 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-12 19:07 ` BIO Usage Error or Conflicting Designs Andre Hedrick
2002-01-12 20:05 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-13 1:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-13 12:59 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-13 19:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-14 6:42 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-12 20:59 ` [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-12 11:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-12 15:50 ` rwhron
2002-01-12 19:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-12 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-13 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 23:11 ` Marvin Justice
2002-01-14 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 0:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 2:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-18 21:18 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-19 0:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-01-12 21:41 ` rwhron
2002-01-12 22:34 ` rwhron
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-15 14:07 rwhron
2002-01-15 17:48 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-16 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-23 3:53 ` rwhron
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