Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:07:46 -0600 | From | Brandon Low <> | Subject | Re: About highmem in 2.6 |
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On Thu, 02/12/04 at 05:02:53 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> writes: > > > There is nothing wrong with that patch, the problem with Highmem support > > on x86 is that is uses an Intel hack to address the full 1Gb of memory, > > which make memory access a bit slower. The question is, does the 128Mb > > additional memory worth that penalty? > > 2GB/2GB split doesn't use any Intel hack nor highmem. In fact for > 1 GB of RAM I use a little different split which covers the whole RAM > and gives more virtual RAM, something like 1.2/2.8 GB.
Any chance of me getting a copy of the patch which allows the finer grained tuning of the kernel/user split?
Thanks.
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