Messages in this thread | | | From | Ryan Cumming <> | Subject | Re: large page patch | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:05:43 -0700 |
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On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote: > From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:26:07 -0700 > > I'm a bit concerned about this, too. My preference would have been to > use the regular mmap() and shmat() syscalls with some > augmentation/hint as to what the preferred page size is (Simon > Winwood's OLS 2002 paper talks about some options here). I like this > because hints could be useful even with a transparent superpage > scheme. > > A "hint" to use superpages? That's absurd.
What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a tad on the course side for most desktop applications.
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