On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 01:22:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
> It's a teeny bit slower if you don't need it. The structures describing
> pages of memory [known as PTE's] are larger, so take up more RAM, and
> take bit longer to fetch, but in practice, you'll usually not even notice
> the difference. It's hard to make it show up even on benchmarks with
> modern CPUs.
Is it good enough that we can consider making the default kernel PAE and
dropping the variant?
No. PAE kernels won't boot on older hardware that doesn't have PAE.
Dave
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