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



On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:43:48 +0200 maximilian attems wrote:

> 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.

My main concern was with powerpc hardware (I believe the mac subarch
is relatively frequently used for desktop machines too).

I apologize if my question was stupid.


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