Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:34:36 +1100 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
| |
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:22:29 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:14:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Give up on large pages - it's just not happening. Even when a 64kB page > > would make sense from a technology standpoint these days, backwards > > compatibility makes people stay at 4kB. > > Yes the 4KB page has to be kept at least for now.
We have sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE). I say, introduce an experimental CONFIG for 64k pagesize in 2.5, so we can start to weed out the problem apps NOW.
Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |