Re: Big memory, no struct page allocation

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, David Chow wrote:

> In other words, even I have 2G physical memory, I cannot have benefits
> of using all memory for pagecache, this also means I cannot create any
> cache beyong a 1G size in kernel. That's a pitty for 32-bit systems,
> with himem, how does it work?

Pagecache can use highmem just fine.

regards,

Rik
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