Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:20:45 -0600 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.46-mm1 |
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--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:12:50 +0300 Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> wrote:
> Why sharepte is dependent on highmem now ?
It's not supposed to be. I'm guessing it's a conversion error in the move to Kconfig. A patch to fix it is attached.
> I thought I will benefit from it on forkloads on lowmem too ...
It's definitely a benefit for all sizes of memory.
Dave McCracken
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 --- 2.5.46-mm1/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 13:17:20.000000000 -0600 +++ 2.5.46-mm1-shsent/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 11:38:50.000000000 -0600 @@ -722,7 +722,6 @@ config SHAREPTE bool "Share 3rd-level pagetables between processes" - depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G help Normally each address space has its own complete page table for all its mappings. This can mean many mappings of a set of shared data
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