From: Brian Jackson <brian@brianandsara.net>
Organization: brianandsara.net
To: gigag@bezeqint.net, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for 3.5/0.5 address space split
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:07:28 -0500
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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
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