From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Support for Intel 4MB Pages
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:32:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B587934.6000103@interactivesi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.1010720142345.25692A-100000@vcmr-19.rcs.rpi.edu>
I thought Linux already used 4MB pages for its 1-to-1 kernel virtual
memory mapping.
Justin Michael LaPre wrote:
> beneficial to use 4MB pages. Some people on IRC suggested the community
> might appreciate such a patch. Would this be well-accepted?
Designing it
> to be general instead of just for our purposes would be more difficult,
> but we would be willing to put in the time if people actually want it.
> If it were to be implemented, what would be the best strategy? A
> new memory zone? Re-working the mm system to try and not break up chunks
> of 4MB if possible? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> -Justin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-20 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-20 18:27 Justin Michael LaPre
2001-07-20 18:32 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2001-07-20 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-20 18:48 ` Kanoj Sarcar
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