Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..

[Dave Hansen]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>>and 64GB is available from vendors who are willing to apply the pgcl
>>patch.
> 
> Nobody is doing that. pgcl is 2.5 only and seems to be still quite instable.
> Also it's extremly intrusive.

Bill will probably wake up any time now and chime in, but don't forget
all of the drivers.

# grep -r PAGE_SIZE drivers/ | wc -l
893

Each one of those needs to be audited before pgcl is acceptable to a
wide audience.  We've already seen plenty of stuff that breaks.  ext2/3
look to be all right, but I know that JFS is broken.
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