linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:27:19 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

On 03/06/2013 02:04 PM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>>
>> Sigh.  This is why "keep the page tables together" is fundamentally the
>> wrong strategy.
>>
>> 8M means that we won't even be able to boot on machines with less than
>> 16M or so of RAM... I'm not sure if anyone still cares, but that is a
>> pretty aggressive heuristic.
> 
> Maybe this should be a config option, given the ad-hoc nature of the
> chosen value? Anyway, the patch works.
> 

Can we make a sensible argument for what the value *needs* to be?  2M at
least makes a modicum of sense.  Either way, it's clear we still have
plenty of cleaning up to do...

	-hpa


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