Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 15:30:00 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? |
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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> don't want to upgrade your CPU's, it's a _whole_ lot easier to just have a > magic "map_large_page()" system call, and start using the 2MB page support > of the x86. > > And no, this should NOT be a mmap. > > It's a magic x86-only system call,
> Making the _generic_ code jump through hoops because some stupid special > case that nobody else is interested in is bad.
Actually, I suspect that MIPS, x86-64 and other architectures are also interested ...
kind regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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