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From: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: adheer chandravanshi <adheerchandravanshi@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: default base page size on ia64 processor
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:08:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12c511ca0611071508x1630ca54x72994336ecc7a6d6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53f38ab60611062345m6cfeda14v4f1f809fe55e95ef@mail.gmail.com>

> Can anyone tell me what is the default base page size supported  by
> ia64 processor on Linux?

Default page size for Itanium is 16K

> And can we change the base page size to some large page size like 16kb,64kb....?
> and how to do that?

You need to rebuild the kernel to change the default pagesize.  Run
"make menuconfig"
and choose the "Processor type and features" menu entry, 3rd entry
down on that menu
is "Kernel page size".  You can choose 4k, 8k, 16k or 64k.

-Tony

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-07 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-07  7:45 adheer chandravanshi
2006-11-07  8:23 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-11-07  8:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-07  9:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-07 17:22 ` vamsi krishna
2006-11-07 23:08 ` Tony Luck [this message]

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