From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:52:19 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: large page patch In-Reply-To: <200208020205.47308.ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ryan Cumming Cc: "David S. Miller" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, gh@us.ibm.com, akpm@zip.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com List-ID: On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ryan Cumming wrote: > On August 2, 2002 01:20, David S. Miller wrote: > > A "hint" to use superpages? That's absurd. > > What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a tad > on the course side for most desktop applications. Of course we wouldn't want to use superpages for VMAs smaller than, say, 4 of these superpages. That would fix this problem automagically. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/