Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:44:58 -0600
From: Greg Norris <haphazard@kc.rr.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ]  VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:13:06PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Greg Norris wrote:
> >Is there any benefit/point to enabling HIGHMEM when using this patch, 
> >assuming that physical memory is smaller than the address space?  For 
> >example, when using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT on a box with 1G of memory.
> 
> No.  In fact, there should be a (very) tiny performance gain
> by NOT enabling HIGHMEM -- things like kmap() should get simpler.

That's essentially what I thought, but it's nice to have some 
verification.  Thanx!
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