From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Henti Smith <bain@tcsn.co.za>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:36:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EAD6688.7060809@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EAD61FB.30907@us.ibm.com>
Dave Hansen wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>
>>Cool. Sorry to be pestering about the 64-bit limits, but can we really
>>use 2^64 bytes of memory on ia64/ppc64/x86-64 etc.? (AFAIK, 64-bit
>>arches don't suffer from a small ZONE_LOWMEM.)
>
> [...]
> Don't forget that highmem starts to be needed before the 4G boundary.
> The kernel has only 1GB of virtual space (look for PAGE_OFFSET, which
> defines it), which means that you start needing to pull all of the
> highmem trickery before you get to the actual limits.
It seems I misunderstood the concept of highmem. I thought highmem was
not needed on 64-bit arches. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
>
> Nobody knows how far it will go. It's fairly safe to say that, at this
> rate, Linux will keep up with whatever hardware anyone produces.
That is the answer the original poster was looking for.
> Unless, of course, someone gets even more perverse than PAE. :)
hehe ;-) Can you say PAE in userspace?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-28 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-24 18:05 maximum possible memory limit Henti Smith
2003-04-24 18:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-28 13:08 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 14:10 ` [Lse-tech] " Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 15:11 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 15:16 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 16:52 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-28 16:58 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-28 22:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 23:50 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-29 0:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-29 0:06 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-29 0:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-29 4:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 16:45 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-28 16:57 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-28 17:13 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 17:53 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-28 18:31 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-04-28 19:05 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-28 17:16 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-28 17:36 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]
2003-04-28 17:44 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-28 18:57 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-04-28 17:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-28 17:26 ` Dave Hansen
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