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

[William Lee Irwin III]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Nobody is doing that. pgcl is 2.5 only and seems to be still quite instable.
>> Also it's extremly intrusive.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:52:20AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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.

I don't have a good estimate for speed-of-processing on the driver front.
My current guesstimates are based on something around 5 drivers a day per
person.

-- wli