On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:20:34 +0100 Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Conclusion: The idea of high-mem and low-mem seperation is fundamentally > broken. The limitation of page table entries to a fixed set is causing > more complications than it solves. Laziness to do things right at memory > management shifts the burden to the users of the interface. Doing it "at memory management" is what many other OS's do and is incredibly costly especially on SMP systems. Please ponder those issues for some time before you blast Linux's MM design decisions. They were not made in a vacuum. I used to be heavily against this scheme long ago, but over time I've seen more and more how it's the right thing to do. - 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/
