Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2013-03-22

[PATCH 5/5] arm: dts: Convert mvebu device tree files to 64 bits

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2013-03-22 19:33:16
Also in: linux-devicetree

On Friday 22 March 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
At a certain point low mem exhaustion becomes a serious issue for
Linux, a system that can't DMA to 85% of its memory is incredibly
broken, IMHO.
A lot of workloads will also suffer from lowmem exhaustion even without
the DMA zone problem. If course the combination is particularly nasty
because now the kernel has a to kmap() a user page in order to copy the
dma data in and out of lowmem.

I'm sure there are even workloads that perform well with more than
16GB, but I can't think of any right now. I would expect that 4 or 8 GB
is where it gets quite silly for most workloads, but troubles start as
soon as you go beyond 1GB.

	Arnd
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