Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:13:16 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > In article <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203171021090.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com>, > > > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > > >In other words, large pages should be a "special hack" for > > > >special applications, like Oracle and maybe some scientific > > > >calculations ? > > > > > > Yes, I think so. > > > Couldn't we choose the page size depending on the map size ? > > For on-disk files I guess this is better an mmap flag, > but for shared memory segments we could try to do this > automagically.
What's the reason that would make more convenient for us, upon receiving a request to map a NNN MB file, to map it using 4Kb pages instead of 4MB ones ?
- Davide
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