From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:32:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060205163254.6fcebf79@werewolf.auna.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E4B2C3.3040109@rtr.ca>
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:57:23 -0500, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > What userspace programs do depend on it?
>
> That *is* the question, isn't it.
> We simply don't know, other than that this is
> a visible change to any program that cares.
>
> Gratuitis breakage of userspace is pointless.
>
> Empirically speaking, everything I use is working fine
> here with the 2G/2G split, but that's just not good enough
> reason to mindlessly break other people's userspace.
>
The only thing I have seen that depends explicitely on this setting
is valgrind, but I think that CVS included some kind of runtime
configuration/selection.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-05 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 12:58 2G memory split Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 13:37 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:43 ` Byron Stanoszek
2006-01-10 13:47 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:39 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 15:03 ` [PATCH] Address space split configuration Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 15:11 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 15:24 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 16:14 ` 2G memory split Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:40 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 18:33 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 17:07 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 17:32 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:37 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:58 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:16 ` [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:37 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:27 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11 1:13 ` J.A. Magallon
2006-01-11 10:15 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11 16:00 ` Greg Norris
2006-01-11 17:13 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-11 17:44 ` Greg Norris
2006-02-05 18:42 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-01 22:23 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-02 11:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-02 20:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-03 22:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-04 10:23 ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-04 11:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 10:36 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-04 11:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 13:57 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-05 15:32 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2006-02-05 15:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-05 21:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 21:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 14:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-07 0:41 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-07 2:51 ` Mark Rustad
2006-02-07 9:38 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-07 12:19 ` RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 14:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-07 14:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 16:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 17:48 ` 2G memory split Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH] " Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-10 17:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:17 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 20:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11 8:39 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-11 10:06 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 18:14 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:56 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 17:01 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:45 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:46 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:58 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:17 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-10 19:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 21:02 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 19:30 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:39 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:55 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 19:01 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:05 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 17:07 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-04-10 14:11 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-10 14:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:28 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 13:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 13:54 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:09 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-10 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:25 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11 0:25 ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-10 14:12 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 14:22 ` Jens Axboe
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2006-02-05 20:20 ` [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) Bodo Eggert
2006-02-05 22:13 ` Jeff Dike
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