On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:03:33AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote: >>> I fixed this issue in arch/x86/x86/x86_machdep.c 1.37, I wonder if your >>> change >>> has reintroduced this problem ... >> >> Since it's not turned on by default, I doubt it. > > I guess if you wrote it, you expect to use it for something :) > in which cases do you intend to turn it on ? A kernel config option, > or for some ports ?
I turn it on for MIPS. BTW, MIPS has separate freelists for <512MB, <4GB, and then everything else.