From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:28:03 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig In-Reply-To: <20080220181911.GA4760@ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20080220122338.GA4352@basil.nowhere.org> <47BC2275.4060900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> <47BC4554.10304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080220181911.GA4760@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Balbir Singh , John Stoffel , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Feb 20 2008 18:19, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> For ordinary desktop people, memory controller is what developers >> know as MMU or sometimes even some other mysterious piece of silicon >> inside the heavy box. > >Actually I'd guess 'memory controller' == 'DRAM controller' == part of >northbridge that talks to DRAM. Yeah that must have been it when Windows says it found a new controller after changing the mainboard underneath. -- 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