Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:34:53 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit .. |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >> Nobody is doing that. pgcl is 2.5 only and seems to be still quite instable. >> Also it's extremly intrusive.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:52:20AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > Bill will probably wake up any time now and chime in, but don't forget > all of the drivers. > # grep -r PAGE_SIZE drivers/ | wc -l > 893 > Each one of those needs to be audited before pgcl is acceptable to a > wide audience. We've already seen plenty of stuff that breaks. ext2/3 > look to be all right, but I know that JFS is broken.
I don't have a good estimate for speed-of-processing on the driver front. My current guesstimates are based on something around 5 drivers a day per person.
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