Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262409AbTGFPvf (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:51:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262464AbTGFPve (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:51:34 -0400 Received: from [65.248.106.250] ([65.248.106.250]:29903 "EHLO brianandsara.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262409AbTGFPvd (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:51:33 -0400 From: Brian Jackson Organization: brianandsara.net To: gigag@bezeqint.net, lkml Subject: Re: Patch for 3.5/0.5 address space split Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:07:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3927aea9.9f3cdaec.8177f00@mas3.bezeqint.net> In-Reply-To: <3927aea9.9f3cdaec.8177f00@mas3.bezeqint.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307061107.28106.brian@brianandsara.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1579 Lines: 41 I would try to use the whole aa patchset, I'm using the 3.5/0.5 split on one of the servers at work and it handles it fine with the whole aa patchset. --Brian Jackson On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:00 am, gigag@bezeqint.net wrote: > >As far as I remember I saw some places in the code which > >should be fixed before split 1/3 can be used. Split 0.5/3.5 can be > >not-working if you are using PAE-enabled kernel (in some places > >pgds are copied directly - i.e. 1GB granularity is used). > > Right. I've seen a mention on this all over the Net. > > Anyway, I'm not using PAE since I have only 4GB of real memory. > Also, I'm using a patch obtained at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2 > .4.20pre5aa1/00_3.5G-address-space-5 > > I need this split to be able to fully utilize the memory for my > application, which I hope will work. Are you working on the patch > for 2.4 or 2.5 kernel? > > Could anybody suggest a configuration what is working? > > Thanks > Giga > - > 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/ -- OpenGFS -- http://opengfs.sourceforge.net Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net - 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/