Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751288AbWAJTFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:05:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751289AbWAJTFX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:05:23 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:8609 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932237AbWAJTFX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:05:23 -0500 Subject: Re: 2G memory split From: Dave Hansen To: Mark Lord Cc: Linus Torvalds , Martin Bligh , Jens Axboe , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <43C4049E.6020105@rtr.ca> References: <20060110125852.GA3389@suse.de> <20060110132957.GA28666@elte.hu> <20060110133728.GB3389@suse.de> <20060110143931.GM3389@suse.de> <43C3F986.4090209@mbligh.org> <1136919312.2557.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43C4049E.6020105@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:05:19 -0800 Message-Id: <1136919920.2557.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 23 On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:01 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > It actually "just works". We have a 16GB machine that gets a lot of > > filesystem activity and use a 2:2 split all the time. Appended patch is > > all that we need. > > Your (tested) patch is not the same as what is being proposed here, > so the testing experience probably doesn't apply. > > The 2:2 boundary is different here. That'll teach me not to read the patch. That actually makes the link I sent more topical because it allowed the user:kernel split with PAE to occur away from hard PMD boundaries. -- Dave - 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/