On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:45:07AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:

> What would be the drawback of the 2:2 split patch in this case? It
> would give you only 2GB of memory instead of 4 

2 GB of virtual address space. That's the drawback ;-) 

> but saves on the context switches.

Like everything else in operating systems design, it's a trade-off. 

Cheers, 
Muli 

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