Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:52:20 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit .. |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >>and 64GB is available from vendors who are willing to apply the pgcl >>patch. > > Nobody is doing that. pgcl is 2.5 only and seems to be still quite instable. > Also it's extremly intrusive.
Bill will probably wake up any time now and chime in, but don't forget all of the drivers.
# grep -r PAGE_SIZE drivers/ | wc -l 893
Each one of those needs to be audited before pgcl is acceptable to a wide audience. We've already seen plenty of stuff that breaks. ext2/3 look to be all right, but I know that JFS is broken. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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