Re: Maximum physical memory on i386 platform

[Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>]

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> 
> Ravi K wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >   The configuration help for HIGHMEM feature on i386
> > platform states that 'Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes
> > of physical memory on x86 systems'. I see a problem
> > with this:
> >  - page structures needed to support 64GB would take
> > up 1GB memory (64 bytes per page of size 4k)
> 
> 64GB is physical memory, not virtual memory.

And at approx. 64 bytes per strct page in mem_map, that's
1G worth of page structs, which is Ravi's point.

Cheers,

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