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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:08:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> A 4G/4G split flushes the TLB on every syscall.

This is just not going to happen. It will have to continue being a 3/1G 
split, and we'll just either find a way to move stuff to highmem and 
shrink the "struct page", or we'll just say "screw those 16GB+ machines on 
x86". 

		Linus

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