Re: Problem with 1G RAM

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:32:23 -0500


> Look at the BTFIXUP stuff we do on sparc32 to see another idea of how
> to taper off most of the performance problems assosciated with a
> dynamic PAGE_OFFSET. (TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE was a real killer before we
> added the BTFIXUP stuff, it put a divide into a critical path).

Would it be feasible to adapt that code to the i386?
I'll take a peek.

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