Re: i386 4/4 change

2018-03-31 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 31 Mar 2018, at 17:57, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > >> the change to provide full 4G of address space for both kernel and >> user on i386 is ready to land. The motivation for the work was to both >> mitigate Meltdown on i386,

Re: i386 4/4 change

2018-03-31 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 01:05:57AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > I haven't yet run any performance tests, I'll try building world and a > few large ports tomorrow. General operation from the command line does > not feel "sluggish" in any way, however. I just updated the review with some changes

i386 4/4 change

2018-03-31 Thread Konstantin Belousov
Hi, the change to provide full 4G of address space for both kernel and user on i386 is ready to land. The motivation for the work was to both mitigate Meltdown on i386, and to give more breazing space for still used 32bit architecture. The patch was tested by Peter Holm, and I am satisfied with

Re: i386 4/4 change

2018-03-31 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Konstantin Belousov wrote: the change to provide full 4G of address space for both kernel and user on i386 is ready to land. The motivation for the work was to both mitigate Meltdown on i386, and to give more breazing space for still used 32bit architecture. The patch was