From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080324.211532.33163290.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20080324.133722.38645342.davem@davemloft.net> <18408.29107.709577.374424@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:29:55 +1100 Return-Path: To: paulus@samba.org Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: > The performance advantage of using hardware 64k pages is pretty > compelling, on a wide range of programs, and particularly on HPC apps. Please read the rest of my responses in this thread, you can have your HPC cake and eat it too. -- 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