From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, dgc@sgi.com,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, mbligh@mbligh.org
Subject: ia64 page size (was Re: [PATCH] per-page SLAB freeing (only dcache for now))
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:13:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051022171358.GA31619@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510221002020.27511@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:08:52AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> There are been versions of Linux for IA64 out there with 64k pagesize on
> IA64 and there is the possibility that we need to switch to 64k as a
> standard next year when we may have single OS images running with more
> than 16TB Ram.
it's a kernel config option, and it has to remain that way; the pagesize is
a userspace visible property and although apps aren't supposed to care..
some do. So Distros that use 16kb right now (the RH ones) will need to keep
16Kb pagesize...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 19:37 [PATCH] per-page SLAB freeing (only dcache for now) Marcelo
2005-10-01 2:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-10-01 21:52 ` Marcelo
2005-10-03 15:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-10-03 20:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-10-03 22:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-04 17:04 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-10-06 16:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-22 1:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-22 6:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-22 9:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-22 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-10-22 17:13 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-10-22 18:16 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-10-23 18:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-23 16:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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