On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:13 PM, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Plus, it will actually save CPU cycles, and thus significant power. > > All of which will be totally wiped out if you bump all the millions of > x86 server boxes in the world up by one page of kernel space and cause a > few disk I/Os FWIW, the former is on battery power, the latter isn't. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html