From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.213602.193698359.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: larger default page sizes... From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <47E9CE00.7060106@fc.hp.com> References: <87lk465mks.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> <47E9CE00.7060106@fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: John Marvin Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:00 -0600 Return-Path: To: jsm@fc.hp.com Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 1) There was no easy way of determining what size the long format vhpt cache > should be automatically, and changing it dynamically would be too painful. > Different workloads performed better with different size vhpt caches. This is exactly what sparc64 does btw, dynamic TLB miss hash table sizing based upon task RSS -- 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