From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265074AbTGIGyK (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 02:54:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265403AbTGIGyK (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 02:54:10 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:35766 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265074AbTGIGyI (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 02:54:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:08:37 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Ingo Molnar cc: Linux Kernel Development , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [announce, patch] 4G/4G split on x86, 64 GB RAM (and more) support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'm pleased to announce the first public release of the "4GB/4GB VM split" > patch, for the 2.5.74 Linux kernel: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/4g-patches/4g-2.5.74-F8 > > The 4G/4G split feature is primarily intended for large-RAM x86 systems, > which want to (or have to) get more kernel/user VM, at the expense of > per-syscall TLB-flush overhead. Great! Another enterprise feature stolen from SCO? :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds