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On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:> >> For anyone taking you up on this I'd like to suggest two possible > >> directions.> >> 1) Increasing PAGE_SIZE in the kernel.> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:53:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes. This is something I actually want to do anyway for 2.7.x. Dan > > Phillips had some patches for this six months ago.> > You have to be careful, since you have to be able to mmap "partial pages", > > which is what makes it less than trivial, but there are tons of reasons to > > want to do this, and cache coloring is actually very much a secondary > > concern.> > I've not seen Dan Phillips' code for this. I've been hacking on > something doing this since late last December. I remember his work on pagetable sharing, but haven't heard anything about changing the page size from him. Could this be what Linus is remembering? - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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