Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:38:01 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre2 |
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > ... but on a 3-level page table (whether with PAE on x86 or on alpha), > you could easily just decide to limit the vmalloc() area to a a gigabyte > or two and handle it with just one PGD entry..
I'm undecided. For normal usage, certainly there's no issue there. But I was thinking about TUX-like kernel applications running on big memory machines -- you'd now only be able to use 8G of the 32G you purchased because of lack of vmalloc space.
Perhaps it's just not worth worrying about.
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