Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

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To: Pim Zandbergen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs
From: Justin Piszcz <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>, Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Pim Zandbergen wrote:

Andi Kleen wrote:

That's impossible. Either it limited your RAM or it didn't change anything.


OK, maybe it's cosmetic, but I would not expect a negative number

With old BIOS it printed
**** MTRRs don't cover all of memory, trimmed 196608 pages

with new BIOS it prints
**** MTRRs don't cover all of memory, trimmed -65536 pages

Pim


It works ok for me:

[    0.000000] **** MTRRs don't cover all of memory, trimmed 16384 pages

This is using his latest patch with 2.6.22-rc6.

Justin.
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- Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs
  - From: Pim Zandbergen <[email protected]>

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