Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)

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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