linux-kernel - Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:17:32 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@....com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
> Most of the work has been done by Yinghai Lu who has gone through a 
> heroic effort to fix all the big-box bugs that he encountered on the 
> vanilla Linux kernel on his various up to 256 GB RAM test-systems. Also 
> work is included from Ying Huang for those insane SGI UV boxes.

Just to make things clear for the list readers, x86-64 worked fine for years 
on 256GB systems.

Many of the problems fixed in this tree are either relatively recent
regressions or have nothing to do with large boxes or 256GB (like the mmconfig
changes)

-Andi
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