Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261456AbVBNQA0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:00:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261457AbVBNQAZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:00:25 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-197-226-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.197.226.105]:25247 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261456AbVBNQAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:00:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:56:55 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Fruhwirth Clemens Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michal@logix.cz, adam@yggdrasil.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm Message-Id: <20050214075655.6dec60cb.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <1108387234.8086.37.camel@ghanima> References: <1108387234.8086.37.camel@ghanima> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 21 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:20:34 +0100 Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > Conclusion: The idea of high-mem and low-mem seperation is fundamentally > broken. The limitation of page table entries to a fixed set is causing > more complications than it solves. Laziness to do things right at memory > management shifts the burden to the users of the interface. Doing it "at memory management" is what many other OS's do and is incredibly costly especially on SMP systems. Please ponder those issues for some time before you blast Linux's MM design decisions. They were not made in a vacuum. I used to be heavily against this scheme long ago, but over time I've seen more and more how it's the right thing to do. - 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/