From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:20:45 -0600 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: 2.5.46-mm1 Message-ID: <192390000.1036610445@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20021106171249.GB29935@stingr.net> References: <3DC8D423.DAD2BF1A@digeo.com> <20021106171249.GB29935@stingr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==========1039320887==========" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul P Komkoff Jr , lkml , Linux Memory Management Cc: Andrew Morton List-ID: --==========1039320887========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:12:50 +0300 Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > Why sharepte is dependent on highmem now ? It's not supposed to be. I'm guessing it's a conversion error in the move to Kconfig. A patch to fix it is attached. > I thought I will benefit from it on forkloads on lowmem too ... It's definitely a benefit for all sizes of memory. Dave McCracken ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 --==========1039320887========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="shpte-2.5.46-mm1-1.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="shpte-2.5.46-mm1-1.diff"; size=425 --- 2.5.46-mm1/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 13:17:20.000000000 -0600 +++ 2.5.46-mm1-shsent/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 11:38:50.000000000 -0600 @@ -722,7 +722,6 @@ config SHAREPTE bool "Share 3rd-level pagetables between processes" - depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G help Normally each address space has its own complete page table for all its mappings. This can mean many mappings of a set of shared data --==========1039320887==========-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/