On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:55:13 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > With the early reserve code in > > ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-reserve > > and > > ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-alloc > > this could be likely done cleaner. > > > > Indeed it could. For i386, the equivalent code would have another > significant benefit: reserving memory and then mapping and accessing it > later would (at least eventually) allow accesses > 4 GB on PAE kernels > (or with a PSE36 hack, on non-PAE kernels.) > Cleaner sounds good. I'll duck these patches for now. This one doesn't apply, btw: setup_32.h disappeared. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
