From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: parisc scatterlist doesn't want page/offset Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:31:22 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <200111161644.JAA26017@puffin.external.hp.com> from "Grant Grundler" at Nov 16, 2001 09:44:57 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Grant Grundler Cc: Matthew Wilcox , "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org List-ID: > Until page/offset completely replaces address, I see a net increase > in cycles for parisc (probably most archs) with only a tangible benefit > for i386. Seems like the burden should be on the i386 folks to not > impact other arches. > My main gripe is adding this to 2.4 seems like the wrong time/place. > I'm happy to revisit this in 2.5. Its a bad impact on x86 so unfortunately it does need doing and I agree with Dave - DaveM rarely implements something that is x86 beneficial but harms his beloved sparc64 without good reason. Alan -- 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/