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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. -- wli - 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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