Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

[Yinghai Lu]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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...

ok, let's stay with 2M.

Please check attached v1 with updated commit log.

Thanks

Yinghai

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