Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:12:39 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE |
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:50:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: >>> For all workloads we care about, yes.
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Not the university workload. NFI what my employer thinks of it, but I >> care about it for the sake of correctness in all cases. >> Lynch me now.
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:00:28AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > I agree with you, but you'll also have to confess that keeping > pagetables around at all (whether it's in highmem or not) will > potentially be a disaster for the university workload. > regards, > Rik
That's pretty much the point of it, yes.
... coincidentally, this is also needed to properly handle the vastness of 64-bit address spaces in comparison to physical memory.
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