context overflow

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Dan Malek wrote:

> We are currently using VSIDs as a lazy TLB reloader, not for
> a large VM space context manager.  There shouldn't be any need
> for CONFIG_HIGHMEM on PowerPC, and we should be able to map huge
> PCI spaces we see on the multiple bridge CPCI systems without
> any worry of running out of VM space.

Somewhere I lost you, could you explain it a bit more (maybe with an
example)? What has CONFIG_HIGHMEM to do with the pci mapping???

bye, Roman


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