From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751187AbWAJTBz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:01:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751302AbWAJTBz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:01:55 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:32406 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbWAJTBv (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:01:51 -0500 Message-ID: <43C4049E.6020105@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:01:50 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hansen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Martin Bligh , Jens Axboe , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2G memory split References: <20060110125852.GA3389@suse.de> <20060110132957.GA28666@elte.hu> <20060110133728.GB3389@suse.de> <20060110143931.GM3389@suse.de> <43C3F986.4090209@mbligh.org> <1136919312.2557.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1136919312.2557.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Hansen wrote: > > It actually "just works". We have a 16GB machine that gets a lot of > filesystem activity and use a 2:2 split all the time. Appended patch is > all that we need. Your (tested) patch is not the same as what is being proposed here, so the testing experience probably doesn't apply. The 2:2 boundary is different here.