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    SubjectRe: aio-core why not using SuS? [Re: [rfc] aio-core for 2.5.29 (Re: async-io API registration for 2.5.29)]
    On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:08:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    > 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".

    I wish life were that simple. Unfortunately, struct page isn't the only
    problem with these abominations: the system can run out of kvm for
    vm_area_struct, task_struct, files... Personally, I *never* want to see
    those data structures being kmap()'d as it would hurt kernel code quality
    whereas a 4G/4G split is well confined, albeit sickening.

    -ben
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