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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing
Date: 15 Oct 2003 09:52:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bmjtvh$1k5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031015130614.GI765@holomorphy.com

Followup to:  <20031015130614.GI765@holomorphy.com>
By author:    William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Well, unless it's an interrupts-safe critical section that's hurting,
> you could take profiles, provided you have enough RAM for the profile
> buffer (which appears to be large). You could easily do a quick hack
> to steal the profile buffer from e820 regions not otherwise used for
> RAM (i.e. unused because you did mem=) to handle that for a slow cpu
> with more RAM than 8MB.
> 

Or just reduce mem= by enough less that you gain the profile buffer
back.

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 11:44 Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing Marco Fioretti
2003-10-14 12:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 13:24 ` Rik van Riel
2003-10-14 14:30   ` jlnance
2003-10-14 14:54     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-14 16:27     ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-10-14 17:33       ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 17:51         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-15 12:43         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-15 13:06           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 16:52             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-10-15 13:08           ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-17 11:50             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-17 23:21               ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-14 18:35       ` tabris
2003-10-14 21:11       ` Roger Larsson
2003-10-15 11:45       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-15 13:06         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:22           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-24 15:47       ` bill davidsen
2003-10-15  6:06     ` Sandy Harris
2003-10-24 15:59       ` bill davidsen
2003-10-24 16:55         ` M. Fioretti
2003-10-24 17:14           ` bill davidsen
2003-10-25 17:42             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-28  9:12           ` Rob Landley
2003-10-14 21:43 ` Unbloating the kernel, action list M. Fioretti
2003-10-14 22:30   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-10-14 22:56     ` cliff white
2003-10-15 12:48       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-15 13:10         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 15:05           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-19 11:21             ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-21  8:04               ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-15 18:16           ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-16  5:19             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-16  8:16               ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-16 16:16                 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-17 20:26         ` M. Fioretti
2003-10-17 20:10     ` M. Fioretti

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