On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:13:06PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Greg Norris wrote:
> >Is there any benefit/point to enabling HIGHMEM when using this patch,
> >assuming that physical memory is smaller than the address space? For
> >example, when using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT on a box with 1G of memory.
>
> No. In fact, there should be a (very) tiny performance gain
> by NOT enabling HIGHMEM -- things like kmap() should get simpler.
That's essentially what I thought, but it's nice to have some
verification. Thanx!
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