Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] highpmd for arch i386 PAE | From | Antony Suter <> | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:12:57 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 04:28, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:05:38AM +1000, Antony Suter wrote: > > This patch places middle level pagetables into highmem, on PAE machines. > > It is relevant to arch/i386 machines running many processes on 4 to 64 > > GB of RAM. > > This is simply a resync to the current kernel of a patch released by > > William Lee Irwin III about 4 months ago. WLI's comments on the patch > > are: > > I'll be damned. This is one of the many pieces people never said much > about. Looks relatively thorough. > > I did a few things to keep pmd caching around that look like they got > dropped, but I suppose for a standalone mainline port that's the only > option.
Did you have a more recent version than the one from linux-2.6.0-test11-wli-1.tar.bz2 ? Perhaps patch-2.6.0-test11-wli-3.bz2 included it, but you didn't break them out into a tarball?
> I'm really astounded ppl are going through the trouble of resurrecting > all this stuff. I suppose that means it was valuable to someone.
Well i'm starting at number 01... :)
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