Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:13:06 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) |
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Greg Norris wrote: > Is there any benefit/point to enabling HIGHMEM when using this patch, > assuming that physical memory is smaller than the address space? For > example, when using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT on a box with 1G of memory.
No. In fact, there should be a (very) tiny performance gain by NOT enabling HIGHMEM -- things like kmap() should get simpler.
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