Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:38:35 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 |
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:42:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > We already have a bucketload of highmem hacks in the kernel, and they are > not sufficient for some people. We have several more (large) highmem hacks > being proposed.
Please don't put page clustering anywhere near that blacklist. There's a lot more to it than "gee, wli shrank mem_map[] again".
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:42:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > wrt long-term kernel purity: one approach would be to not merge 4G+4G into > 2.7 at all. This keeps the long-term kernel codebase saner. It assumes > that the monster 32-bit boxes will have been obsoleted by 64-bit machines > within 3-4 years and that it is acceptable to end-of-line those machines on > a 2.6-based kernel. I think that's pretty safe.
Maybe some way to get feedback to/from cpu vendors about this would help. If we really want to kill highmem dead in 2.7, beating cpu vendors with a baseball bat until they^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wkindly asking cpu vendors to kill that fucking PAE shit dead (goddammit!) might help.
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