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Re: more mips64 vmalloc() space

To: "John Hawkes" <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: more mips64 vmalloc() space
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:49:21 +0100
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In-reply-to: <004001c0ab55$da882820$6701a8c0@marin1.sfba.home.com>; from hawkes@engr.sgi.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:37:58PM -0800
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:37:58PM -0800, John Hawkes wrote:

> Ralf, I've been running my mips64 kernels with KPTBL_PAGE_ORDER bumped
> up to 2 (from 1) -- include/asm-mips64/pgtable.h.  This doubles the
> available vmalloc() space.  I imagine it's perfectly okay to use a value
> of 4, but I haven't needed to go up that high yet.  Please feel free to
> make this change in CVS.

The question I have is more generic - how much vmalloc space can we
expect to be used in worst case in practice on an Origin?

  Ralf

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