From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B587934.6000103@interactivesi.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:32:20 -0500 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Support for Intel 4MB Pages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 > > -- > 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/ > > > > -- Timur Tabi Interactive Silicon -- 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/