From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7TIxwk5028780 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:59:58 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k7TIxwsw337492 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:59:58 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k7TIxwcc003643 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:59:58 -0600 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure (v2) From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <874pvw3099.peterc%peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> References: <20060828154413.E05721BD@localhost.localdomain> <1156785119.5913.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <874pvw3099.peterc%peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:59:52 -0700 Message-Id: <1156877992.5408.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Chubb Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:32 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > IA64 wants 16k standard, 64k for better performance. So something > that says `choose 8k if you can' doesn't really fit. And it'd be > *really* nice to test larger pages --- I see ~5% improvement in > streaming I/O to a suitable RAID array with 64k as opposed to 16k > pages. I've updated the help text a bit. I'd appreciate if you could take a look at the latest series, which I'll post shortly. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org