linux-linaro pull request

Matt Waddel matt.waddel at canonical.com
Fri Sep 17 15:39:56 UTC 2010


Hi Kiko,

On 09/17/2010 12:28 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:28:03PM -0600, John Rigby wrote:
>>       LINARO: [Config] Turn on CONFIG_HIGHMEM for vexpress
> 
> Hello there,
> 
>     Question: in general, why would we use CONFIG_HIGHMEM instead of
> changing the kernel/userspace memory split?

I didn't notice much of a difference either way, so I just
picked one.  I didn't do any real testing or benchmarking,
so if there a better reason to choose the kernel/userspace
split option (CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G=y) I'll put in a request
to change it.

--Matt




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