Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751214AbWERFoY (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 01:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751215AbWERFoY (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 01:44:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:56272 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbWERFoX (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 01:44:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:43:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, galak@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes Message-Id: <20060517224334.7d2bb5eb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <446C03F4.20508@sbcglobal.net> References: <20060505172847.GC6450@in.ibm.com> <2C184B1B-9F70-4175-B90B-A1CC5741A6DE@kernel.crashing.org> <20060509200301.GA15891@in.ibm.com> <446C03F4.20508@sbcglobal.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 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: 604 Lines: 15 Matthew Frost wrote: > > This may sound like a dumb question, but aside from code bloat, what are > the performance issues involved in running 64-bit resources on 32-bit > systems? Unmeasurably minor, I expect. No sane software project would take on this (small) maintenance burden just to save 50-60 kbytes. We would though. - 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/