Re: new x86 flavours: -bigmem | -lowlat?

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:52:33 +0200 maximilian attems wrote:
> 
> > now that the smp alternatives patch went in,
> > time to think about usefull flavours:
> > 
> > -bigmem got requested several times with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y and
> >         CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
> 
> > -lowlat with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and CONFIG_HZ=1000 seems more
> > controversial although i could imagine plenty of happy user of it.
> 
> Are these really relevant only for x86?

concerning the frequent desktop usage yes, maybe -lowlat for amd64 too,
that's up to fs to decide if that flavour is considered to be useful.

concerning -bigmem i fail to understand the question.
that is an arch specific option.
 
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maks