Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+willy=40w.ods.org@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S265655AbSKFTOc>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:14:32 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S265888AbSKFTOc>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:14:32 -0500
Received: from pixpat.austin.ibm.com ([192.35.232.241]:9206 "EHLO
	baldur.austin.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id <S265655AbSKFTOb>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:14:31 -0500
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:20:45 -0600
From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.5.46-mm1
Message-ID: <192390000.1036610445@baldur.austin.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021106171249.GB29935@stingr.net>
References: <3DC8D423.DAD2BF1A@digeo.com>
 <20021106171249.GB29935@stingr.net>
X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==========1039320887=========="
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1668
Lines: 47

--==========1039320887==========
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline


--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:12:50 +0300 Paul P Komkoff Jr
<i@stingr.net> wrote:

> Why sharepte is dependent on highmem now ?

It's not supposed to be.  I'm guessing it's a conversion error in the move
to Kconfig.  A patch to fix it is attached.

> I thought I will benefit from it on forkloads on lowmem too ...

It's definitely a benefit for all sizes of memory.

Dave McCracken

======================================================================
Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

--==========1039320887==========
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="shpte-2.5.46-mm1-1.diff"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="shpte-2.5.46-mm1-1.diff"; size=425

--- 2.5.46-mm1/arch/i386/Kconfig	2002-11-06 13:17:20.000000000 -0600
+++ 2.5.46-mm1-shsent/arch/i386/Kconfig	2002-11-06 11:38:50.000000000 -0600
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@
 
 config SHAREPTE
 	bool "Share 3rd-level pagetables between processes"
-	depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G
 	help
 	  Normally each address space has its own complete page table for all
 	  its mappings.  This can mean many mappings of a set of shared data

--==========1039320887==========--

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/