On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
You'd probably prefer to use the 4G/4G patch from Ingo Molnar, integrated into
Fedora kernels, to allow processes to use 4G of virtual address space.
Side note: Fedora apparently dropped this patch some time ago, reason not
known to me.
* Thu Dec 09 2004 D
On Monday 24 January 2005 20:43, Marcus Better wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I applied Blaisorblade's host-skas3-2.6.9-v7.patch, and it breaks the
> fglrx graphics driver from ATI[1]. This is with Debian kernel 2.6.9, but
> I believe it applies to vanilla kernels also.
>
> The problem is the following decla
Hi all,
I applied Blaisorblade's host-skas3-2.6.9-v7.patch, and it breaks the
fglrx graphics driver from ATI[1]. This is with Debian kernel 2.6.9, but
I believe it applies to vanilla kernels also.
The problem is the following declaration added to include/asm-i386/desc.h:
On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:34, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 02:58 pm, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > That is -mm1, I've already looked at both... the patches listed below are
> > minor fixes / improvements...
> >
> > The name of the 2.6.11-rc1-mm2 patch which probably fixed your issu
On Monday 24 January 2005 09:13, Vaibhav Sharma, Noida wrote:
> Thank you all for ur valuable discussion (temp dir) and suggestions related
> to highmem/PAE and x86_64.
>
> I have another thing to ask related to debugging...i want to check the
> routines which will be involved in the memory manage
On Monday 24 January 2005 11:02, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> > The client kernel's highmem suport is unlikely to do much, I'd think.
> > Not unless it's unmapping and remapping multiple mmaps.
It does this, indeed and sadly (that's why it's so slow).
> > (The
On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:51, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2005 03:28 am, Doug Dumitru wrote:
> > Mr. Sharma,
> >
> > What you are trying to do will work, but not for large amounts of
> > memory. UML runs the client using a single user mode memory block as
> > the entire client's c
Jeff Dike wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But that's not all, what's needed to have *support* for big memory.
Linux needs to have one struct page for each physical mem page, which
in the simple case of UML are placed in one memmap array.
The original poster is interested in the memory scalability
On Monday 24 January 2005 03:13 am, Vaibhav Sharma, Noida wrote:
> According to the design of UML, it has its own VM system. If I have to
> check the scalability limits of the "parent kernel" for memory management,
> will UML be useful..?
Jeff Dike already answered this. (He's the UML maintainer
> Linux needs to have one struct page for each physical mem page, which in
> the
> simple case of UML are placed in one memmap array.
> This array needs to be accessible permanently to the kernel, i.e. it
> has to be in low-mem. AFAIK, one struct page is 44 bytes in size, thus the
> array is about
Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
Interesting. I wonder how that works? (PAE on x86 only lets you have
64G.)
Thats only an limitation of the CPU support for PAE. As UML is using
mmap() other limits apply and these limits is mainly set by the UML
pagetable structu
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
Interesting. I wonder how that works? (PAE on x86 only lets you have 64G.)
Thats only an limitation of the CPU support for PAE. As UML is using
mmap() other limits apply and these limits is mainly set by the UML
pagetable structures.
But an individual pr
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
The client kernel's highmem suport is unlikely to do much, I'd think.
Not unless it's unmapping and remapping multiple mmaps. (There's large
file support, but trying to mmap a 5 gig chunk out of a large file can't
work: what would that mean? How could you
Thank you all for ur valuable discussion (temp dir) and suggestions related
to highmem/PAE and x86_64.
I have another thing to ask related to debugging...i want to check the
routines which will be involved in the memory management.
According to the design of UML, it has its own VM system. If I
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