Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:13:00 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap() |
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:49:50PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Sigh. A pox on whoever thought up huge pages. > > managing 1TB+ of memory in 4K chunks is just insane. > The question of larger pages is not "if", but only "when". >
Remember that there are at least two separate issues there. One is the handling data in larger granularities than a 4K page and the second is the TLB, pagetable etc handling. They are not necessarily the same problem.
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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