Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:44:16 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020829164416.A67527@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:41:14PM -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0208291600300.303-100000@sirppi.helsinki.fi> <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com>
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Apparently, On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Terry Lambert said words to the effect of; > Aaro J Koskinen wrote: > > I've been thinking what kind of modifications would it need to decide > > the KVA space size at the kernel boot time (maybe an argument to > > btext), instead of compile time. In theory I can't see any obstacles. > > > > Basically the approach would be simply the following: > > [ ... approach ... ] > > > Am I completely off the track? What are the main reasons behind the > > current KVM layout? > [ ... hacks ... ] > > If you need a larger amount of UVA space, you might want to consider > buying an IA64 machine, instead, since the bigger your iron, the > bigger your KVA space requirements will be. What, no UltraSPARC? :) :) :) Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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