Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:40:05 -0500 | From | Luiz Capitulino <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/v2] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information |
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 00:31:15 +0900 Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch adds 1GB large page support information in > Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt > > Reference: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/31/366 > > Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> > --- > Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt > index b64e0af..f2d3a10 100644 > --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt > +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ > > The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in > the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support > -that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, i386 > -architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, ia64 > +that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, x86 CPUs normally > +support 4K and 2M (1G if architecturally supported) page sizes, ia64 > architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M, > 256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical > translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor.
Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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