From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:13:58 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: ia64 page size (was Re: [PATCH] per-page SLAB freeing (only dcache for now)) Message-ID: <20051022171358.GA31619@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20051001215254.GA19736@xeon.cnet> <43419686.60600@colorfullife.com> <20051003221743.GB29091@logos.cnet> <4342B623.3060007@colorfullife.com> <20051006160115.GA30677@logos.cnet> <20051022013001.GE27317@logos.cnet> <20051021233111.58706a2e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , Marcelo Tosatti , manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, dgc@sgi.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, mbligh@mbligh.org List-ID: 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... -- 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