David Mosberger wrote: > > Assuming the patch is clean and the performance impact is reasonably > small (I think it should be), I'm sure the patch would be welcome > (that's just my opinion; Arun is the ia32 subsystem maintainer so he's > the final decision maker as far as this is concerned). Yes, I'd really like to see this problem fixed. I think, the patch needs to be as memory efficient as possible - we're using non-pageable kernel memory. So some numbers on the two level bitmap scheme vs keeping lists of head/tail pages for common ia32 workloads would be good. -Arun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Mar 10 14:40:01 2004
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