Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | larger default page sizes... | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
> The move to 64k page size on IA64 is another way that this issue can > be addressed though.
This is such a huge mistake I wish platforms such as powerpc and IA64 would not make such decisions so lightly.
The memory wastage is just rediculious.
I already see several distributions moving to 64K pages for powerpc, so I want to nip this in the bud before this monkey-see-monkey-do thing gets any more out of hand.
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