Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:36:31 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Page Colouring (was: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected) |
| |
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> For anyone taking you up on this I'd like to suggest two possible > >> directions. > >> 1) Increasing PAGE_SIZE in the kernel. > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:53:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes. This is something I actually want to do anyway for 2.7.x. Dan > > Phillips had some patches for this six months ago. > > You have to be careful, since you have to be able to mmap "partial pages", > > which is what makes it less than trivial, but there are tons of reasons to > > want to do this, and cache coloring is actually very much a secondary > > concern. > > I've not seen Dan Phillips' code for this. I've been hacking on > something doing this since late last December.
I remember his work on pagetable sharing, but haven't heard anything about changing the page size from him.
Could this be what Linus is remembering? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |