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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3
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On Monday, April 28, 2008 9:31 am Mika Fischer wrote:
> Jesse Barnes schrieb:
> > On Monday, April 28, 2008 6:53 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> i think we should still try to make this a non-default option because
> >> modern Xorg should not have any need to touch MTRRs. Perhaps a .config
> >> dependent on CONFIG_DANGEROUS ;-)
> >
> > Well, not quite... we're still waiting on some way of getting WC
> > semantics for sysfs PCI files. Suresh tells me something like that is
> > queued up, but until that hits the mainline X will still need to bang the
> > MTRRs to get decent performance.
>
> Do you happen to know if this new sysfs-way will work correctly in the
> case where the MTRRs explicitly say that the video-memory is uncachable?

It should, since we'll be using PAT to set the cache control in the sysfs
case.

Jesse


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