Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:04:42 -0800 | Subject | Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB? |
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>>>>> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:52:38 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
DaveM> So when someone tells me "on ia64, with 8gb ram, my eepro100 DaveM> card gets really crap performance under any load" I will DaveM> explain the above to them and let them know that the DaveM> performance sucks because the ia64 folks refuse to integrate DaveM> this bug fix :-)
I think you're ignoring disk I/O.
I'm not terribly interested in revisiting this topic. If you care, take it up with the folks that build the chips without hardware I/O TLB. They are the ones with the vested interest. ;-)
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