Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:05:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:04:58 -0500 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:978 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:04:46 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15493.31034.461025.106304@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:04:42 -0800 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, sp@scali.com, adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB? In-Reply-To: <20020305.175238.102577593.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <15492.62946.952197.632931@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020305.170909.78708394.davem@redhat.com> <15493.29045.798709.577904@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020305.175238.102577593.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.1.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:52:38 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" said: DaveM> So when someone tells me "on ia64, with 8gb ram, my eepro100 DaveM> card gets really crap performance under any load" I will DaveM> explain the above to them and let them know that the DaveM> performance sucks because the ia64 folks refuse to integrate DaveM> this bug fix :-) I think you're ignoring disk I/O. I'm not terribly interested in revisiting this topic. If you care, take it up with the folks that build the chips without hardware I/O TLB. They are the ones with the vested interest. ;-) --david - 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/