From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:19:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c In-Reply-To: <20070129190806.GA14353@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <1169993494.10987.23.camel@lappy> <20070128142925.df2f4dce.akpm@osdl.org> <20070129190806.GA14353@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > For every 64-bit Fedora box there's more than seven 32-bit boxes. I > think 32-bit is going to live with us far longer than many thought, so > we might as well make it work better. Both HIGHMEM and HIGHPTE is the > default on many distro kernels, which pushes the kmap infrastructure > quite a bit. But HIGHPTE uses kmap_atomic (in mainline: does -rt use kmap there?) Hugh -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org