Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266626AbUIVSpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:45:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266574AbUIVSpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:45:15 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:23559 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266626AbUIVSpL (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:45:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4151C9FB.8040100@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:52:43 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: jmerkey@comcast.net, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, wli@holomorphy.com, roland@topspin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com Subject: Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) References: <083020040556.26446.4132C1810009E19F0000674E2200751150970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <20040830111019.5ddc99ab.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040830111019.5ddc99ab.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 16 I feel like I've missed something in this discussion. First of all I really don't understand the cause of the lost 128K in the first place, but it seems that by increasing the address space reserved for the kernel in user space by some amount fixes this problem. My question is: Why can't we just shrink the kernel address space by that same amount, allowing the kernel address space plus the extra to fit into 1GB? - 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/